Empire Archives: Juneau's history for the week of Oct. 8
This is a photo of the front page of the Juneau Empire on Thursday, Sept. 28, 1995. (Clarise Larson / Juneau Empire) Three decades of capital city ...
This is a photo of the front page of the Juneau Empire on Thursday, Sept. 28, 1995. (Clarise Larson / Juneau Empire) Three decades of capital city coverage. Empire Archives is a series printed every Saturday featuring a short compilation of headline stories in the Juneau Empire from archived editions in 1985, 1995 and 2005. This week in 1985, the first batch of the Alaska Permanent Fund dividend checks were hitting the mailboxes of residents across the state. The dividend that year was $404 (approximately $1,141 today).