Alaska Politics
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s sweeping economic agenda faces an uncertain future in Congress after he failed last week to unify his own party around a strategy to pass a bitterly contested... Read more -
JUNEAU — The Alaska Legislature began its fourth special session on Oct. 4 with low expectations and little hope that legislators will be able to end their annual struggle over the Permanent Fund... Read more -
States such as Illinois and New Jersey are often used as a punchline for their historic money management troubles, but a decade of deficits has Alaska headed down a similar path, according to fiscal... Read more -
Legislators are likely to know next week whether or not they should prepare for a fourth overtime period this year. Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s spokesman Jeff Turner said Sept. 7 that the governor may see... Read more
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Progress is being made two weeks into the special session to settle this year’s PFD but many House Republicans insist that it will come at the expense of a so-far elusive long-term solution to the... Read more
National Politics
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Republicans have options to counteract the Obama administration’s move to pull Arctic waters from the federal offshore oil and gas lease plan, but they are far from immediate. -
Donald Trump’s election is generally viewed as a win for Alaska’s core resource industries, but whether or not it translates into better business in the Last Frontier will have much to do with his relationship with those on Capitol Hill.