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Matt Acuña Buxton

Matt Acuña Buxton
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Matt Acuña Buxton is a long-time political reporter who has written for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and The Midnight Sun political blog. He also authors the daily politics newsletter, The Alaska Memo, and can frequently be found live-tweeting public meetings on Bluesky.
News

Did the Dunleavy administration cut sweetheart tax deals with oil companies? Legislators are trying to find out.

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Alaska legislative leaders are demanding Dunleavy address an “overall pattern of peculiarities” in the state’s collection of oil and gas tax.
News

GOP refusal to balance their budget puts AIDEA and state scholarship fund on the chopping block

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The impact on both AIDEA operations and the state’s scholarship program under either scenario isn’t immediately clear.
News

Alaska Legislature passed a law capping predatory payday loans. Republicans said it was anti-freedom

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A long-running effort to protect Alaskans from predatory payday loan schemes cleared the Alaska Legislature in its closing days.
Education

‘Valid and valuable.’ Legislators signal support for international teachers filling Alaska’s classroom vacancies

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Most of the country has faced shortages of teachers in recent years, but the impact has been particularly acute in rural Alaska.
News

Small victories, setbacks and rampant uncertainty defined this year’s session

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And while legislators had bigger hopes for the budget, they said they managed to deliver on some key areas while still keeping it balanced.
Health

As GOP pushes ahead with Medicaid cuts, Alaska legislators ask delegation to hold the line

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Congressional Republicans are pushing ahead with a plan to cut Medicaid spending to pay for a slate of tax breaks on the wealthy pushed by Trump.
Education

Legislators hold firm, override Gov. Dunleavy’s veto of school bill

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The 46-14 vote is a stinging rebuke for Gov. Mike Dunleavy and his supporters.
Commentary

Dunleavy vetoes public school bill, claiming ‘no evidence’ funding matters

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Gov. Mike Dunleavy today vetoed legislators’ latest attempt to permanently increase public school funding.
Arts and Culture

Push to teach AAPI history in Alaska schools clears Senate again

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The Senate voted unanimously this week to add lessons covering the history and contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders to the public school curriculum.
News

Dunleavy appointee with ‘particularly disqualifying’ views rejected for spot on Alaska Medical Board in rare vote

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This year’s joint confirmation hearing was more muted than usual, but it still marked a legislative first.
Commentary

The Alaska Governor’s Race Power Rankings: Three’s a Crowd

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The race for Alaska’s next governor grew a bit larger this week with the entrance of right-wing organizer and former talk radio personality Bernadette Wilson.
News

Senate passes wide-ranging election reform bill with key fixes for rural voters

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For more than half a decade, legislators have tried to fix widely acknowledged problems with the state’s election system.
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