Senate passes budget with $5,500 cash payments to Alaskans that could drain state savings
May 11 By Iris Samuels The Alaska Senate on Tuesday approved a budget that would require the state to dip into savings to cover $5,500 in cash payments to Alaskans, even as the state faces a revenue windfall due to high oil prices. The ballooned…
Amid Flagging Poll Numbers, Biden Tells Dems It’s Us vs. Them
May 10 By Susan Milligan For more than a year, President Joe Biden acted like former President Donald Trump didn’t exist. Biden wanted to move on and move past the drama and divisiveness of his predecessor’s term, instead laying out what he had hoped would…
Memorable event was held in Fairbanks
May 10 By Julia O’Malley On May 9, in the city of Fairbanks in Griffin Park, flowers were laid at the monument to Soviet and American pilots who ferried planes under the Lend-Lease Program from the USA to the USSR during the Second World War….
Alaska Senate votes for energy payment on top of dividend
May 9 The Alaska Senate voted Monday for a $1,300 “energy relief” payment in addition to a dividend payment for residents this year. The energy payment passed 12-7 as an amendment to the state budget package that senators were debating. The budget bill as it…
Alaskans are already voting in the special U.S. House race. But the campaign is only just starting.
May 8 By Nathaniel Herz Ana Hoffman is a corporate executive, tribal leader and church volunteer, with no shortage of stuff to do in this Southwest Alaska hub town of 6,500. But as ballots began going out last week for an unprecedented, by-mail, 48-person special…
Q&A: How to vote in Alaska’s first all-mail election
May 7 By Iris Samuels More than a half a million ballots were mailed to Alaska voters on April 27. As of Friday, just under 8,000 ballots had been returned to the Division of Elections. The special election for Alaska’s lone U.S. House seat is…
Alaska lawmakers struggle with debate over Permanent Fund dividend
May 6 By Becky Bohrer State lawmakers are running out of time this session to pass legislation aimed at resolving the annual debate over what size dividend should be paid to residents from the Alaska Permanent Fund. Legislative leaders have said they see resolving the…
Could Overturning Roe v. Wade Backfire for Republicans?
May 5 By Susan Milligan Imperiled Democrats have a message for Republicans who have been campaigning for decades on the promise to ban abortion: be careful what you wish for. The leak of the draft Supreme Court decision vacating the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling…
Q&A with Alaska U.S. House candidates: What would be your top priority if elected?
May 4 What would be your top priority if elected to Congress? Jay R. Armstrong (R) Upholding my oath to defend our Constitution for the U.S. against all enemies foreign and domestic — all the time, every time. Washington, D.C. has become the domestic terrorists,…
Biden Calls Leaked Supreme Court Opinion Overturning Roe ‘Radical’
May 4 By Susan Milligan President Joe Biden slammed the leaked, draft Supreme Court decision vacating the right to abortion in Roe v. Wade Tuesday as “radical,” saying it reflects “a fundamental shift in jurisprudence” that endangers the right to marry, the right to contraception…
Q&A with Alaska U.S. House candidates: What qualifies you to represent Alaskans in
May 3 What in your background qualifies you to represent Alaskans in Congress? Jay R. Armstrong (R) I live and work here in Alaska and have experienced Washington, D.C. tyranny and oppression for decades. Washington, D.C. and their unconstitutional laws are our biggest problem. Congress…
Donald Trump Seeks to Prove He Still Matters in Battle for Ohio Senate Seat
May 2 By Susan Milligan Donald Trump is not on the ballot this midterm election year. And yet, he is, as voters go to the polls to decide whether to nominate scores of Trump-endorsed candidates in races that will show just how powerful the former…