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Yearly Archives: 2022

Breaking: House slaughters full dividend, 22-18

After a couple of hours of debate on Saturday, the Alaska House of Representatives voted down the full Permanent Fund dividend, which was embedded...

Notes from the trail IV: Dunleavy fundraiser, and observations from the forum in Anchorage

How many have voted? At 36,126 ballots recieved, it it looks like close to 7% of the ballots have been voted and returned to...

Art Chance: The AFL-CIO is trying to rob its members of the biggest pay raise they have ever seen — a full PFD

By ART CHANCE“We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more.   And we shall never cease to demand more until...

Will House meet Saturday to vote on budget?

After days of unexplained delays and heightening tension in the Capitol, the Alaska House of Representatives is scheduled to convene at 10 am on...

Baby formula crisis: Over 33 percent shortage in Alaska

At a time when young families are praying the Alaska Legislature will give them their full statutory Permanent Fund dividend so they can buy...

Blogger’s partisan lie about redistricting board member makes it into court, offered as truth to judge by lawyer

A lie told by partisan Alaska blogger writer Matt Buxton has also made its way as factual evidence into the official court record in...

Jim Crawford: Legislators should listen to the people, not the special interests, and pay the dividend for a change

By JIM CRAWFORD “The most irresponsible budget in Alaska History” is the way organized labor blasts the budget currently under consideration by the House.  It passed...

Big oops: Alaska Beacon stumbles with ‘bit%*es of the highest order’ attack on an MRAK writer and an Alaska Redistricting Board member

It all started with Matt Buxton, an Alaska blogger, accusing a writer for Must Read Alaska of calling Alaska Redistricting Board members Melanie Bahnke...

Explainer: The fate of the Permanent Fund dividend on Friday the 13th

Friday the 13th morning is greeting Juneau with all the tension and stakes of a poker game in the middle of a barroom brawl....

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