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Leaving Juneau: My work for the Alaska Legislature ended in mid-April after 100 days. Read More »
 December 22, 2017ECHO Magazine: https://www.echoak.com/2017/12/birchwood-water-lines/ (2017©donnliston.com) The revelation of a settlement agreement between the Municipality of Anchorage and Eklutna, Inc.–signed by the parties back in January of this year—which requires the MOA to help promote Eklutna’s Powder Acres and Powder Hills developments, is now causing members of the Birchwood Community Council to seek a delay
Birchwood Residents Mobilize Read More »
What happens in Juneau is supposed to stay in Juneau… Earlier version of this story published: December 21, 2017 in ECHO Magazine This story began with that phone call nobody who lives in a coastal Alaska community ever wants to receive late at night. It was from my supervisor’s wife who was asking if her
Fairweather Friends Wrecked MY BOAT! Read More »
Symposium Against Income Taxes (2017©donnliston.com) November 16, 2017 ECHO Magazine Imagine what might happen if every elected official attempted to inform constituents of the most significant current issues being addressed by policy makers. What if said elected officials provided expert overviews with suggested options for solving problems? Would Alaskans arrive at better results without the
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Investing in our Community: Cliff Cook takes no chances with Eagle River  (2017©donnliston.com) October 20, 2017 ECHO Magazine:https://www.echoak.com/2017/12/community-patrol/ More than 80 people sat, stood and lined the walls of Room 170 of the 12001 Business Boulevard building December 14 to show support, at the Eagle River Community Council meeting there, for Cliff Cook in his mission
Crime Spree Abatement Read More »
Elsa Snelling October 5, 2017 ECHO Magazine: https://www.echoak.com/2017/10/elisa-snelli Discussions about closing any Eagle River/ Schools are no longer being conducted in the Anchorage School District although local parents may need to be active in consideration of ASD boundary changes, according to Elisa Snelling, School Board Treasurer. “We can take a look at our enrollment out here
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(2017©donnliston.com) October 5, 2017 ECHO Magazine: https://www.echoak.com/2017/10/community-council-cer-growth/ “Los Anchorage,” Alaska, has a problem. Like Los Angeles, California, Anchorage is located in a geological bowl surrounded by mountains and ocean. Los Angeles County is in a large bowl of sand with sandy hills–the largest flat basin opening onto the Pacific Ocean. Anchorage is in a smaller
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Warning Signs (2017©donnliston.com)  September 27, 2017Echo Magazine https://www.echoak.com/2017/09/warning-signs/ It has been said that suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Like a lot of Alaska superlatives, the high rate of Alaska suicides was impressed upon some of us growing up in high-risk social circumstances. We were told by teachers and counselors that many people in
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Anchorage Daily News on the Brink Originally posted on September 14, 2017 in Echo Alaska, titled: Extra! Extra! Read All About It: Donn Liston Remembers the ADN Once Anchorage was a two-newspaper town; we had three television stations delivering supplemental news in black and white, with color highlights during the early 1960s. As a kid
Unsupervised Youth in Anchorage Read More »
Visible from Anchorage, below the Nike Hercules Missile installation, is a lighted star installed by the military in 1960. Americans during the 1950s-1960s grew up under the imagined imminent mushroom cloud of the Cold War with the United Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR); a standoff that lasted from the end of World War II until Christmas
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