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Anchorage Daily News
April 22, 2018
... come to see Pruitt as the anti-Earth figure in our political affairs. I've also come to realize that Alaskans now have a litmus test for what it means to be responsible in our permitting of industry. The term "responsible development" gets bantered about quite frequently in Alaska politics and without any context
KTVA
April 22, 2018
Members of the Alaska Grassroots Alliance were recovering from reportedly being sprayed near the Church of Love in Spenard on Saturday, April 21, ... Several members of a left-leaning political group meeting in Spenard say they were sickened and temporarily blinded Saturday afternoon, after a manÃâà...
Must Read Alaska (blog)
April 20, 2018
The Alaska Republican Party is the largest political party in Alaska, with 140,000 members. Its rules allow it to withdraw support for candidates who have organized with an opposition party when a majority of Republicans has been elected, as occurred in 2016. The only reason the Alaska House ofÃâà...
LancasterOnline
April 20, 2018
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is moving forward on oil and gas drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, fulfilling a longtime Republican priority that most Democrats fiercely oppose. A notice being published Friday in the Federal Register starts a 60-day review to sell oil and gasÃâà...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
April 14, 2018
Alaska is home to the third-most maritime jobs per capita in the nation, a figure which has given some of Alaska's political representatives in Washington an excuse to not take a stand against the Jones Act. However, most of these maritime jobs are in fishing and other export-oriented, commodity-basedÃâà...
CNN
April 8, 2018
(CNN) Voters in Anchorage, Alaska, narrowly rejected a proposal to restrict bathroom access for transgender people, the first time such a measure was decided at the ballot box. So-called ... Alaska Family Council, a supporter of the bill, said it was intended to protect the privacy of women and children.
Alaska Public Radio Network
April 5, 2018
Sen. Dan Sullivan's former campaign manager Ben Sparks may be facing arrest following a bizarre report of domestic violence in Las Vegas. Listen now. The political adviser's ex-partner told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that Sparks abused and assaulted her, culminating in an altercation at her houseÃâà...
Must Read Alaska (blog)
March 13, 2018
I expect, given the current nature of our country's politics, to have a door or two slammed in my face. But, I have to admit that I find it ... Moms are observant, dedicated, and passionate – the qualities that just about everyone, of every political affiliation, wants in their elected officials. Being a mom shouldn't beÃâà...
Alaska Dispatch News
March 13, 2018
A rewritten proposal unveiled Monday by the Alaska House's largely-Democratic majority, House Joint Resolution 23, would amend the state Constitution to include the dividend program for the first time. Majority leaders have described the proposal as a way to protect dividend payments while allowingÃâà...
Alaska Dispatch News
March 13, 2018
We the people of Alaska, grateful to God and to those who founded our nation and pioneered this great land, in order to secure and transmit to succeeding generations our heritage of political, civil, and religious liberty within the United States, do ordain and establish this constitution for the State of Alaska.
Virginian-Pilot
March 5, 2018
FILE - In this April 7, 2017 file photo, Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, and Alaska Gov. Bill Walker greet each other at a meeting in Anchorage, Alaska. Walker announced Monday, March 5, 2018, a spring trade mission to China that aims to build off existing relationships between the state and the AsianÃâà...
Alaska Dispatch News
March 1, 2018
Alaska's dysfunctional political system could do the same with our fund's Earnings Reserve Account, which currently contains $16.8 billion. ... He said he would prefer to do away with the Permanent Fund rather than have it continue to dominate Alaska politics and potentially hurt Alaskans' lives throughÃâà...
KTVA
March 1, 2018
From policing to politics, Elvi Gray-Jackson has been involved in municipal government since she arrived in Anchorage from New Jersey in 1982. "People ... "Alaska Native Month, Black History Month, I was the leader in bringing together those diverse resolutions on the assembly and I'm proud of that," saidÃâà...
News & Observer
March 1, 2018
The recent deadly shooting at a Florida high school prompted Alaska lawmakers to review a bill that would let authorities temporarily take guns from people deemed to be a danger to themselves or others. While the bill has been pending for more than a year, it got its first hearing before the House JudiciaryÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 1, 2018
Some said the problem with the department's current structure is that a growing number of local decisions are being made in Washington by political appointees for political reasons. The trend ... "But it became very political," probably because the livestock industry wanted a specific kind of grass for cattle.
The Boston Globe
March 1, 2018
ANCHORAGE — Climbers on North America's tallest mountain may have to start packing out more of their feces after a researcher determined a glacier in which much of it has been dumped over the past decade probably is not decomposing the human waste. Michael Loso, a glacier geologist, calculatesÃâà...
McClatchy Washington Bureau
March 1, 2018
Guns could have saved Jews from the Holocaust, Alaska congressman says ... An Alaska congressman has argued that Jews could have averted the Holocaust if they'd been armed. ... It's offensive for anyone to manipulate the history of the Holocaust to score political points. https://t.co/OdB2w6XYro.
NBCNews.com
March 1, 2018
Young asked at an event in Juneau, Alaska, before answering his own question. "Fifty million ... Don Young, R-Alaska, left, waits for a televised debate to begin on Alaska public television on Nov. 3, 2016, in ... It's offensive for anyone to manipulate the history of the Holocaust to score political points." Rep.
The Daily Progress
March 1, 2018
This Oct. 17, 2016, photo shows U.S. Rep. Don Young gesturing while speaking with a reporter after a debate in Anchorage, Alaska. The most senior member in the U.S. House has argued against gun control by wondering how many Jews "were put in the ovens" during the Holocaust because they weren'tÃâà...
NBCNews.com
February 28, 2018
No evidence, no report, no nothing." Alaska did not respond to repeated requests for comment, but has previously denied that any breach occurred. Bradley Moss, a lawyer specializing in national security, tried to lift the veil and find out what U.S. intelligence knew about the Russian attempts to compromiseÃâà...
Alaska Dispatch News
February 20, 2018
But late Tuesday, political blogger Jeff Landfield said the state Division of Elections told him that Shower is not registered with a political party. ... But Tuckerman Babcock, the chairman of the Alaska Republican Party, said in a phone interview that Shower had filled out a form last month to switch hisÃâà...
Alaska Dispatch News
February 15, 2018
Braund's withdrawal capped a head-spinning 24 hours in Alaska's political world. And it left unresolved the feud between ... He added: "I'm not a radical rabid." Babcock, the state Republican Party chair, suggested that Walker was holding out for a candidate more aligned with the governor's centrist politics.
E&E News
December 31, 1999
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — During the last week of March, a group of Chinese industry officials flew to Alaska to get a close-up look at the lands on which the state is proposing to build a $43.4 billion pipeline and liquefied natural gas export project. The 38 delegates represented three major ChineseÃâà...
Alaska Dispatch News
December 31, 1999
But it would also reserve a fixed proportion of those earnings for dividend checks — meaning that the payments could only be reduced further by another amendment to the Alaska Constitution, which requires the same two-thirds votes by the House and Senate and a majority vote by the public. And sinceÃâà...
PBS NewsHour
December 31, 1999
The 24-hour news cycle is filled with political coverage, but not everything gets the attention it deserves. ... Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, pictured speaking at a ceremony after Congress passed sweeping tax overhaul legislation on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on December 20, 2017.
Juneau Empire
December 31, 1999
Most legislators in both chambers agree that Alaska needs to invest more in public safety: the biggest roadblock to progress is not disagreement on substance. Our message to the legislature is simple: do not play politics with the well-being of Alaskans. Even as the state faces a fiscal crisis, we cannot affordÃâà...
Vox
December 31, 1999
Alaskan businesses can no longer pay workers with disabilities less than the state's $9.84 minimum hourly wage. The Alaska Department of Labor last week repealed a decades-old regulation that allowed employers to get an exemption to pay workers with disabilities less than the minimum wage if theirÃâà...
