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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.
Commentary

Spiking prices are a reminder Alaska really needs to get off the oil roller coaster

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This commentary was originally published in AK Memo. After a muted initial reaction to Trump kicking off a war with Iran, oil prices soared to...
Elections

Sunday’s your last chance to register to vote in Anchorage’s 2026 election

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Anchorage’s municipal election is scheduled for April 7, making the final day to register to vote or update your registration this Sunday, March 8.
Politics

As legislators raise alarm over feds getting private voter information, Dunleavy officials say they’d do it again

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The U.S. Department of Justice was given unprecedented access to Alaskan voters’ private information.
News

Online age verification could be coming to Alaska, piggybacking on anti-CSAM bill

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But the bill does a whole lot more than that in the name of childrens’ safety.
Federal Government

The health ‘transformation’ fund touted by Republicans isn’t all it’s cracked up to be

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At his annual address to lawmakers last week, Sullivan touted the Rural Health Transformation Fund as a landmark achievement.
Commentary

Sullivan, Begich face reckoning over Trump policies sooner than expected

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One of the underappreciated elements of the “Polar Payoff” that helped secure the Alaska Delegation’s votes for Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill is that it was aimed at delaying, not stopping, the worst of it from hitting the state.
News

‘Are we about to see more children detained?’ Legislators probe ICE detention and deportation of Soldotna kindergartener

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Legislators this week are trying to get answers on ICE’s shocking arrest and deportation of a 5-year-old kindergartener, his mother and two siblings.
News

Arrested Alaska Republican legislative staffer was a ‘compulsive child exploitation offender,’ feds warn, as they look for more victims

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There are few things in Alaska politics that can be truly shocking, but the arrest Friday of now-former legislative staffer Craig Scott Valdez for heinous sex crimes against children is one of them.
Elections

Sullivan defends support for SAVE Act despite harm to Alaskan voters: ‘I’m also a senator for America.’

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Congressional Republicans are pushing ahead with a measure to overhaul the nation’s elections.
News

Legislators take another shot to help state’s ailing boarding school despite Dunleavy’s opposition

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The Senate gave another shot at legislation aimed at smoothing out the maintenance needs at the state-run boarding school, Mount Edgecumbe High School.
Politics

Sullivan says ICE has his ‘full support’ after Soldotna kindergartener and family snatched by officers

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Alaska U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan told legislators that he wasn't aware that ICE officers this week detained a 5-year-old Soldotna kindergartener, two teenage siblings...
Commentary

After facing ‘unnecessary grilling,’ Sullivan returns to Legislature with limit on questions

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Last year's question-and-answer session between legislators and Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan featured such brutal questions.
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