The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner is a morning daily newspaper serving the city of Fairbanks,Alaska,the Fairbanks North Star Borough,the Denali Borough,and the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is the farthest north daily in the United States,and one of the farthest north in the world. The oldest continuously operating daily in Alaska,by circulation it is the second-largest daily in the state. It was purchased by the Helen E. Snedden Foundation in 2016. The Snedden family were longtime owners of the News-Miner,selling it to a family trust for Dean Singleton and Richard Scudder,founders of the Media News Group in 1992.
The government of Louisville,Kentucky,headquartered at Louisville City Hall in Downtown Louisville,is organized under Chapter 67C of the Kentucky Revised Statutes as a First-Class city in the state of Kentucky. Created after the merger of the governments of Louisville,Kentucky and Jefferson County,Kentucky,the city/county government is organized under a mayor-council system. The Mayor is elected to four-year terms and is responsible for the administration of city government. The Louisville Metro Council is a unicameral body consisting of 26 members,each elected from a geographic district,normally for four-year terms. The Mayor is limited to a two consecutive term limit,while members of the Louisville Metro Council are not term limited.
George Murray Sullivan was an American politician who served as the 26th mayor of the City of Anchorage from 1967 to 1975 and the 1st mayor of the Municipality of Anchorage from 1975 to 1981.
Robert Reichert is an American Democratic politician and former mayor of Macon,Georgia,the fourth largest city in the state.
Kim Steven Elton is a journalist,commercial fisherman,government official and Democratic politician in the U.S. state of Alaska. Elton represented Juneau in the Alaska House of Representatives for two terms,from 1995 to 1999. In 1998,he was elected to the Alaska Senate,serving until his resignation in early 2009 to accept appointment as director of Alaska Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Interior by President Barack Obama. Prior to holding elected office,Elton was executive director of the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute and a salmon troller engaged in commercial fishing.
Scott Jiu Wo Kawasaki is an American healthcare professional and politician from Alaska. A Democrat,he is a member of the Alaska Senate representing the state's District P,which includes neighborhoods within the city limits of Fairbanks.
Daniel Albert Sullivan is an American businessman and politician who served as the mayor of Anchorage from 2009 to 2015 and on the Anchorage Assembly from 1999 to 2008. The son of Anchorage's longest-serving mayor,George M. Sullivan,he was the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor of Alaska in the 2014 election but he and incumbent Governor Sean Parnell were defeated by the ticket of Independent Bill Walker and Democrat Byron Mallott.
Lesbian,gay,bisexual,and transgender (LGBT) persons in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania enjoy most of the same rights as non-LGBT residents. Same-sex sexual activity is legal in Pennsylvania. Same-sex couples and families headed by same-sex couples are eligible for all of the protections available to opposite-sex married couples. Pennsylvania was the final Mid-Atlantic state without same-sex marriage,indeed lacking any form of same-sex recognition law until its statutory ban was overturned on May 20,2014.
Lesbian,gay,bisexual,and transgender (LGBT) persons in the U.S. state of North Carolina may face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents,or LGBT residents of other states with more liberal laws.
Lesbian,gay,bisexual,and transgender (LGBT) people in the U.S. state of Arizona may face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents. Same-sex sexual activity is legal in Arizona,and same-sex couples are able to marry and adopt. Nevertheless,the state provides only limited protections against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Several cities,including Phoenix and Tucson,have enacted ordinances to protect LGBT people from unfair discrimination in employment,housing and public accommodations.
Lesbian,gay,bisexual,and transgender (LGBT) persons in the U.S. commonwealth of Kentucky still face some legal challenges not experienced by other people. Same-sex sexual activity is legal in Kentucky. Same-sex couples and families headed by same-sex couples are not eligible for all of the protections available to opposite-sex married couples. On February 12,2014,a federal judge ruled that the state must recognize same-sex marriages from other jurisdictions,but the ruling was put on hold pending review by the Sixth Circuit. Same sex-marriage is now legal in the state under the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges. The decision,which struck down Kentucky's statutory and constitutional bans on same-sex marriages,and all other same sex marriage bans elsewhere in the country,was handed down on June 26,2015.
Lesbian,gay,bisexual,and transgender (LGBT) persons in the U.S. state of Alaska may face some legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT Alaskans. Since 1980,same-sex sexual conduct has been allowed,and same-sex couples can marry since October 2014. The state offers few legal protections against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity,leaving LGBT people vulnerable to discrimination in housing and public accommodations;however,the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County established that employment discrimination against LGBT people is illegal under federal law. In addition,four Alaskan cities,Anchorage,Juneau,Sitka and Ketchikan,representing about 46% of the state population,have passed discrimination protections for housing and public accommodations.
The 1972 United States House of Representatives election in Alaska was held on November 7,1972,to elect the United States representative from Alaska's at-large congressional district. Incumbent Democratic Representative Nick Begich went missing shortly before the general election,but still defeated Republican nominee Don Young.
William Martin Walker is an American attorney and politician who served as the 11th governor of Alaska,from 2014 to 2018. He is the second Alaska-born governor,after William A. Egan.
Proposition 1 was a referendum held on November 3,2015,on the anti-discrimination ordinance known as the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO). The ordinance was intended to improve anti-discrimination coverage based on sexual orientation and gender identity in Houston,specifically in areas such as housing and occupation where no anti-discrimination policy existed. Proposition 1 asked voters whether they approved HERO. Houston voters rejected Proposal 1 by a vote of 61% to 39%.
The 2018 Alaska gubernatorial election took place on November 6,2018,to elect the governor and lieutenant governor of Alaska. In the primaries for recognized political parties,candidates for governor and lieutenant governor run separately. The winners of each respective primary for governor and lieutenant governor then become a joint ticket in the general election for their political party. Incumbent independent governor Bill Walker was running for re-election in what was originally a three-way race between Walker,Republican former state senator Mike Dunleavy,and Democratic nominee Mark Begich,a former U.S. Senator. However,Walker dropped out on October 19,2018,and endorsed Begich. In spite of Walker dropping out,Dunleavy defeated Begich in what would become the only gubernatorial gain by a Republican candidate in 2018.
The 1973 Alaska's at-large congressional district special election was held on March 6,1973,to elect the United States representative from Alaska's at-large congressional district. Incumbent Democratic Representative Nick Begich had won reelection in 1972,but had gone missing shortly before the election.
Hannah Paul Solomon was an American community leader and artist. She was the first female mayor of Fort Yukon,Alaska,helped organize the Fairbanks Native Association,and was inducted into the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame in 2012. Her traditional beadwork is in the collections of several museums.
Laura Mae Bergt was an Iñupiaq athlete,model,politician,and activist for the Iñupiat and other Indigenous Alaskans. Born in the Northwest Arctic Borough of Alaska to bi-racial parents,she grew up in Nome and Kotzebue before attending high school in Sitka. Involved in the Native Olympic movement,she was both a nine-times winner of the Arctic Circle blanket toss event and served as chair of the World Eskimo Indian Olympics in 1966. She worked as a promoter for the new state of Alaska attending trade shows and making marketing appearances as a spokeswoman and guest on radio and television programs. From the 1960s,she worked in various policy positions at the tribal,local,state,and national level to address issues like disability,education,employment opportunities,housing,and poverty,and promoting the rights of Indigenous people.
