Questions for local candidates: your input needed

This October 9, we’ll elect a new mayor of the Fairbanks North Star Borough, three members of the Borough Assembly (seats A, F, and G), and two members of the Fairbanks City Council (seats A and B) .  I’d like to make some endorsements — but I’ll need your help, first.
It may be naïvely hopeful, [...]

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Red Couch opens; Gambardella’s closes (for breakfast)

I write this from the latest treasure to open downtown: Red Couch Trading Post, where I write on my laptop while enjoying a blueberry cream-cheese cake, a cinnamon pull-apart (a small monkey bread), and a coffee.
Red Couch is part cafe, part bakery, part deli, and part convenience store. They have a simple deli counter, [...]

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