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Yearly Archives: 2017

Walker’s one infrastructure ask of Trump: Gasline for $45 billion

It's "Infrastructure Week" in the nation's Capitol and that means hard-hatted transportation and water-works types will be there in force to pump up the...

Poison pill in SB 26: What’s next in Juneau?

MOTHER SEATON STEWING: What will House Democrats do with that poison pill they stirred into SB 26 -- the Permanent Fund restructuring bill? The poison pill says SB 26 won't...

Dems target Alaska Native woman lawmaker

In a ironic turn of events, Alaska Democrats are now attacking a Native Alaska woman lawmaker for not voting to censure a fellow lawmaker for insensitive...

Senate votes down an income tax

It's been a disastrous week for Gov. Bill Walker. His natural gas pipeline project was gutted by the Alaska Senate, when it removed half...

Due process: Pebble, EPA come to terms on lawsuit

The Pebble Partnership and the Environmental Protection Agency have kissed and made up: Pebble will be allowed to enter the permitting process under the Clean...

Tuesday night fights: Demboski-1, Governor-0; Senate pays tax credits

GOV, YOU'VE BEEN DEMBOSKIED - Gov. Bill Walker attended the Anchorage Assembly meeting on Tuesday and spoke to the municipal body for a several minutes, making his...

Gasline woes: Senate strips $50 million from agency

The Alaska Senate just found $50 million to help defray the state's fiscal gap, at least this year.  It's at AGDC, the gasline agency. While...

In Democrat House, vote how they tell you to, or it’s ‘hate speech’

TRIGGER WARNING: THIS MAY HURT FEELINGS The writer Evelyn Beatrice Hall in Friends of Voltaire wrote, " I disapprove of what you say, but I will...

Briefs: Pageant, Derby, conference committee, governor’s race

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE ON SB 26 CAN WAIT: The talk of the town last weekend was the annual Kentucky Derby Party in Anchorage at Simon...

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