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Alaska:
Alaska's Unemployment Rate Drops In March - Alaska's unemployment
rate fell to 7.4 percent in March, a decline of nine-tenths of
a percentage point from February's revised rate of 8.3 percent.
The seasonally adjusted rate also fell sharply, dropping from
7.2 percent to 6.7 percent, its lowest level since February 2002.
Ketchikan's unemployment rate
fell from 10.3 percent in February to 8.7 percent in March. With
a labor force of 6,924 reported in March 2005, 6,320 were reported
employed. - More...
Saturday - April 16, 2005
Alaska: Governor
Breaks Ground on $30 Million Dayville Road Project - Citing
the Dayville Road as one of the most important 5-mile stretches
of highway in Alaska, Governor Frank H. Murkowski on Friday broke
ground on a $30 million project to reconstruct the road and replace
five bridges along its route. The state Department of Transportation
and Public Facilities accelerated construction of the project
by one year, and it should be completed by August 2006.- More...
Saturday - April 16, 2005
Alaska: State
Operating Budget Sails Through Alaska Senate - Bipartisan
cooperation paid off Friday for all Alaskans when the Alaska
Senate passed the FY 06 operating budget on day 96 of the legislative
session. Senate Democrats and Republicans worked together to
craft a spending plan both sides could agree on and completed
it earlier in any legislative session in recent memory. - More...
Saturday - April 16, 2005
National: Q&A
look at the Senate filibuster By BILL STRAUB - Senate Republican
leader Bill Frist of Tennessee is thinking about invoking the
"nuclear option" - a change in Senate rules that would
prohibit Democrats from staging filibusters in opposition to
President Bush's judicial appointments.
Here is a quick look at the
issue: - More...
Saturday - April 16, 2005
Web Tools: Microsoft's
Web browser has a rapid rival in Firefox By RACHEL LEIBROCK
- You probably didn't even realize you had a choice.
If you're anything like the
typical Web user, your online experience is probably something
like this: Turn on the PC, fire up the Microsoft Internet Explorer
browser that came pre-installed on your computer and start surfing.
But what if you're fed up with
annoying pop-up ads, the threat of spyware taking over your computer
and feeling as if you're chained to the Man who is Microsoft?
Guess what? There are alternative
tools to surf the Web, and one of them - Firefox - is quickly
threatening to put an end to Internet Explorer's enduring dominance.
- More...
Saturday - April 16, 2005
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