Normally, Alaska’s legislative committees start out the session with general fiscal presentations from agency heads. Legislators hear from the Office of Management and Budget and oil economists, so that before they make big fiscal commitments, they know what the state’s economic outlook is. But not this year’s House Community and Regional Affairs Committee. They’re fast-tracking … Continue reading Tensions over pensions: H.B. 22 is fast-tracked through House committee, but trips on its own schtick