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With little movement on salmon bycatch, Alaska advocates look to Biden administration for executive action

News Nathaniel Herz, Northern Journal -
This article was republished from Northern Journal. To support Northern Journal, subscribe here. Amid catastrophic shortfalls in salmon harvests in some of Alaska’s rural, Indigenous communities, advocates have pleaded for a crackdown on unintentional catch of those same salmon by the...
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Alaska state-owned corporation intends to spend $7 million in 2024 on Ambler Road

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This article was originally published in the Alaska Beacon. Executives at Alaska’s state-owned development bank say they will advance plans for a 211-mile mining road in Northwest Alaska despite the objections of a landowner in the path of the road. On...
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Dunleavy doesn’t want you to read this report on teacher pay

Education Matt Acuña Buxton -
In a stunning move, even by his standards, the administration of Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy killed a report by state economists that showed Alaska’s teacher pay isn’t quite what it used to be. According to an op-ed published by Dan...
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Sullivan blames Biden for Alaska drug trafficking epidemic that began years ago

News Dermot Cole -
This article was originally published on dermotcole.com. “Damn it, Mr. President. Do your job,” Sen. Dan Sullivan said in a post on social media Sept. 28. “Secure the border. Damn it, Secretary (Alejandro) Mayorkas. Secure the border. Do your job.” Sullivan...
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Vance hires Arkansas hardliner against abortion, LGBTQ+ rights as staffer

News Yarrow Silvers -
Vance hired Bob Ballinger, who is a former member of the Arkansas house and senate, and lost reelection in 2022. 
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Fairbanks voters opt for change on assembly, school board, rejecting right-wing candidates

News Dermot Cole -
This article was originally published on dermotcole.com. The Fairbanks borough assembly and school board elections turned into a rout, with right-wing candidates losing by margins of about 500 to 1,800 votes with all 32 precincts counted. It was a clean sweep...
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Bronson administration to abate camps, pivot to smaller shelters for cold weather housing

News Yarrow Silvers -
With Mayor Dave Bronson's proposed mass shelter on Tudor and Elmore off the table, his administration has pivoted to supporting non-congregate housing and smaller shelters, a strategy for solving homelessness that the Anchorage Assembly has advocated for years. Bronson’s housing...
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A new rush arrives on the Seward Peninsula: for graphite, not gold

News Nathaniel Herz, Northern Journal -
This article is republished from Northern Journal. To support Northern Journal, subscribe here. SEWARD PENINSULA — Ducks and swans flew overhead as Sylvester Ayek, 82, and his daughter Kimberly, 35, hauled rocks to anchor their small salmon net on the...
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Dunleavy, not the Legislature, blocks action on a fiscal plan by failing to lead

News Dermot Cole -
This article was originally published on dermotcole.com. The Legislature was never going to call a special session to deal with a fiscal plan. That’s because 40 members would have to agree to it and we don’t have a two-thirds legislative supermajority...
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Sullivan’s ‘Alaska Federal Judiciary Council’ is nothing but a stalling tactic

News Dermot Cole -
This article was originally published on dermotcole.com. The nine friendly people chosen by Sen. Dan Sullivan to serve on his so-called “Alaska Federal Judiciary Council” won’t speak with one voice. Some of them will even disagree with him on major...
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