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Trump administration freezes millions in grants to Alaska schools

Education Corinne Smith, Alaska Beacon -
The withheld grants are aimed at instruction improvements, English language learning, and other areas in schools.
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Dunleavy calls special session while legislator is on deployment in bid to skirt veto overrides

News Matt Acuña Buxton -
Gov. Dunleavy called a special session starting at the beginning of August, ostensibly to push for policies that legislators have already rejected.
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ICE transfers detainees from Alaska prison, but questions remain around due process and conditions

Federal Government Corinne Smith, Alaska Beacon -
Thirty-five men from out of state held at the Anchorage Correctional Complex were transferred back to Washington state, but advocates say their detention raises serious concerns.
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Murkowski wants everyone to know casting the deciding vote for GOP’s megabill was really hard

Federal Government Matt Acuña Buxton -
After warning about its harms to Alaskans, Sen. Lisa Murkowski cast a deciding vote for Trump’s tax bill.
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Murkowski can still do the right thing — forfeit the sale of her vote on GOP/Trump tax scam

Commentary Dermot Cole -
GOP leaders tried to buy Murkowski’s vote on the Trump tax bill with special Medicaid perks for Alaska.
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Dunleavy compounds rural school troubles with latest veto of teacher housing bill

Commentary Matt Acuña Buxton -
For a governor who supposedly cares deeply about schools and rural Alaskans, Dunleavy doesn’t seem interested in making their lives easier.
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Forest Service plans to repeal rule that has blocked logging, mining in parts of Alaska and the West

Environment James Brooks, Alaska Beacon -
Since 2001, the Roadless Rule has limited development in the Tongass National Forest, Earth’s largest temperate rainforest.
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Dunleavy vetoes payday loan bill, says Alaskans should be free to take predatory loans

News Matt Acuña Buxton -
The legislation, Senate Bill 39, would have placed a 36% cap on all small-dollar loans in Alaska.
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GOP mega-bill stuck in US Senate as disputes grow over hospitals and more

Federal Government The Alaska Current -
This story is republished from News From the States. WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Republicans appeared deeply divided Wednesday over how to establish a fund for rural hospitals to offset the budget impacts of Medicaid cuts in the “big, beautiful bill.” The...
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GOP’s Medicaid cuts will be unsurprisingly terrible for Alaska

Federal Government Matt Acuña Buxton -
The precise shape, scope and impact of the Medicaid cuts have been hard for providers to nail down.
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