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Alaska House committee revises proposed pot sales tax

News Matt Acuña Buxton -
The Alaska House Labor and Commerce Committee met last Thursday to review legislation updating the state’s marijuana laws and agreed to bring the proposed sales tax rate down to 6%.
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Alaska Medical Board sends controversial regulations for physician assistants back to the drawing table

News Matt Acuña Buxton -
The regulations would have proposed steep barriers for physician assistants to work in rural communities, significantly increasing the additional training required and limiting the scope of their work.
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Monthly premiums for health insurance on the federal marketplace will rise 16% in Alaska next year

News Nathaniel Herz, Northern Journal -
The year-to-year increase in Alaska’s individual market is among the highest in the nation, in a state that already has some of the nation’s steepest health care costs.
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Anti-ranked choice voting campaigners rail against regulators at hearing: ‘What’s the point of you guys?!’

News Matt Acuña Buxton -
The staff report recommends more than $100,000 in possible fines, but the final decision will rest with the commissioners.
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OPINION: Personal accountability can only get you so far

Opinion Sam Davenport -
This is completely unacceptable, especially for a mayor who claims to be pro-business. 
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Bronson lashes out at Anchorage School District as unsafe roads force another remote learning day

News Matt Acuña Buxton -
After evaluating the roads on Tuesday, the school district canceled the fourth day of in-person learning since the city was blanketed with snow last week.
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Creative Currents: Healing through song with Ashley Young 

Arts and Culture Sam Davenport -
After being involved in six different bands, Ashley Young made the decision to start writing her own music and telling her own story.
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Proposed regulations could upend health care access in rural Alaska

News Matt Acuña Buxton -
An overhaul of the regulations governing how physician assistants practice in Alaska has been in the works for several years, but the end result isn’t what most were expecting.
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Creative Currents: Viola Armitstead mixes trippy and traditional into her tattoos

Arts and Culture Sam Davenport -
Anchorage tattoo artist Viola Armitstead is part of an uptick of young artists entering the tattooing scene.
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The Best and Worst Political Stunts of 2022: U.S. Senate Edition

Commentary The Alaska Current -
In what will be a temporarily reoccurring feature (from now until Election Day), here are the best and worst political stunts of the 2022 election cycle.  If you are like me, you're starting to feel extreme hostility towards the human...
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