Van and Andrew look back on 2021 local politics with our first ever clip show. 

Mayor Dave Bronson has cultivated a star chamber of current and retired Anchorage Police Officers who attend Anchorage Baptist Temple to decide police department policy in the shadows. 

Angela Rodell is fired as executive director of the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation in the biggest political assassination in modern Alaska politics.

Congressman Don Young ain't running. Lawmakers get their per diem wacked. Mayor Bronson list of casualties grows. Alaska's public schools are in crisis. Amy Demboski should be fired. 

Mayor Bronson badmouths Anchorage into a credit downgrade. Anchorage Police Chief Kenneth McCoy abruptly resigns. Governor Dunleavy campaigns on the public dime as his approval ratings plummet. Maia Nolan-Partnow has thoughts on the salaries of journalist. We take on an assault on our beloved Pop Tarts.

We finally know why Mayor Dave Bronson's Homeless Director quit without a word. The mayor loses two of his more controversial nominees to the rude, crude and socially unacceptable file. Governor Mike Dunleavy is asking the court to send his personal bill to taxpayers while he plays with deer and ignores Alaska's struggling economy. In Life Maia Nolan-Partnow has some thoughts on her newly vaccinated children. My grandson Wyatt files a travel review from Vernal, Utah. In closing comments we long for a Senfeld-esq revenge.

The Alaska Redistricting Board gerrymanders its way to an unconstitutional outcome and it reeks of political desperation. 

Mayor Bronson embraces a discredited Chinese doctors theories on Covid. Amy Demboski buys a new home in Wasilla while getting roasted by a former colleague. The homeless director has gone Jimmy Hoffa while the Bronson administration plays games. A great book on one of the bravest female spies in American military history...and closing comments on Eagle Brexit.

While we continue to be alarmed at the behavior of Governor Mike Dunleavy and Mayor Dave Bronson, we can't forget that government still needs to work and they're both trying their hardest to break it. Maia Nolan-Partnow has some last minute Halloween costume ideas. We review the book The Warmth of Other Suns and in closing comments U.S. Senate challenger Kelly Tshibaka is selling more false tales.

Mayor Bronson, his Chief Medical Officer and his legislative liaison manage all anger the medical profession. Governor Dunleavy is using his staff to stiff arm political donors. My nine year old granddaughter has some thoughts on stuff. British crime dramas are back and how about some *!#$% civility around here?