One Hot Mess

James Brooks' September 18 piece in the Alaska Beacon about an $800,000 compensation study aimed at solving the State’s hiring and retention woes reflects a certain level of denial and myopia in the executive branch.
For many employees, the State of Alaska is a toxic environment that systematically treats its workers like infants and criminals who are out to fleece their employer instead of like the adult professionals that they are. Almost weekly, I hear from State...

"You don’t know fear until you have kids.”
That’s what an aunt told me when my first child was seven weeks old, and we were visiting family in Arizona. “I still worry about my kids, and the oldest is on Social Security!” my grandfather said three years earlier, and shortly before his death at...

In December of 2018, I was illegally fired from my job as an Alaska Assistant Attorney General by the Dunleavy administration, three hours after the new governor was sworn into office. I had worked at the Department of Law for 12 years through five administrations...

(This post contains spoilers, but that’s like saying there’s some mold on milk that’s been out on the counter for a week).
I don’t watch much TV as I prefer to spend my limited free time on more erudite pursuits like books and dank memes. But somehow, I got pulled into the show “Manifest” on Netflix, and wow, was it ever bad....