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Current Cartoons: Third time’s the charm?

Cartoon Holly Todd -
A third special session has begun, but lawmakers say time is running out for Gov. Mike Dunleavy to secure agreement on tax incentives aimed at advancing the Alaska LNG project.
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Current Cartoons: Bycatch, big money and Alaska’s Senate race

Cartoon Holly Todd -
Bycatch has emerged as one of the defining issues in Alaska's U.S. Senate race, putting candidates' records, fisheries policy and campaign contributions under a new spotlight. Commentary and illustration by Holly Todd.
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Current Cartoons: A New kind of extraction

Cartoon Holly Todd -
A proposed Mat-Su industrial park reflects Alaska's latest economic bet: leveraging abundant land and energy to attract data centers.
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Buxton: Between voter purge and partisan ballot hijinks, what’s the Division of Elections even doing?

Opinion Matt Acuña Buxton -
Originally published in The Alaska Memo.
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Dunleavy administration backs 20,000-acre giveaway to AIDEA

Commentary Dermot Cole -
The state is rushing through a plan to give away 20,000 acres of state land near Houston to the Alaska Industrial Development & Export Authority.
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Big donor to campaign to end open primaries charged in big Medicaid fraud case

Commentary Dermot Cole -
A big political donor has been charged in connection with a $619,000 Medicaid fraud case.
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Veto governor

Cartoon Holly Todd -
At this point, Mike Dunleavy's governing style may be defined less by the bills he signs than by the budgets he vetoes. He's becoming Alaska's veto governor.
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“Alaska voters are savvy”

Cartoon Holly Todd -
The effort to overturn ranked-choice voting and the effort to remove Petersburg's Dan Sullivan from the ballot share an underlying premise: that Alaska voters can't be trusted to figure things out for themselves.
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Alaska brought on a right-wing attorney to defend the decision to remove Dan J. Sullivan from the ballot

Commentary Matt Acuña Buxton -
The lawyer hails from a conservative Lower 48 law firm and helped shield the Republican National Committee from being investigated over its ties to the Jan. 6 insurrection. 
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AKLNG’s ‘razzle dazzle’

Cartoon Holly Todd -
The AKLNG special session continues to grind forward.
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