(Republican Leadership Capitulates Just 48 hours after promising to protect the people) Early this morning, the Alaska Legislature passed HB205, the State’s Operating Budget. Highlights: The $1,000 stimulus payment for …
(Conference COmmittee Votes to Decimate the PFD and Withhold Coronavirus Funding – 3/28/2020) It’s a scene that plays out before each election, often with textbook precision: First, Conservative legislators take …
Front and center in the current crisis has been the question over what to do with the withheld dividend money ($5,044 per Alaskan) that some legislators have prevented the Dunleavy …
A small group of legislators in Juneau has been working non-stop the past four years to convince other legislators (and the public) that there is no such thing as a …
You feel fine, so you go out, and don’t find out ’til later how many you infected
(members of the alaska state house Gather for Daily Meetings – 3/25/20) When Mark Twain wrote “No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session” …
(Select the image above to read the full press release) I was both pleased and pleasantly surprised to read in the article above that four of my Republican colleagues …
The news two weeks ago that a state legislator is being criminally charged with election law violations has inspired the expected reactions of outrage and anger, as public figures try …
(Most Republicans join Democrats to Pass the Largest Supplemental Budget in State History—3/26/20) Oil is hovering around $25/barrel (60% less than what is required to fund this year’s budget). The …
(My view from the Floor of the Alaska State House – 3/23/20) The rarified air is awfully thin today on Alaska’s own Mt. Olympus in Juneau. From the second floor …
