With election day closing in, Anchorage mayoral candidates are fighting not to win, but to lock in a spot in a runoff

Mar. 30—With ballots due back Tuesday in Anchorage's municipal election, none of the major candidates for mayor anticipate winning outright. Instead, they are hoping to emerge next week as one of the top two vote-getters in order to advance to a May runoff that will determine who leads the city during the next three years. As of Thursday, municipal election officials had received 32,967 …