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Over GOP objections, House committee moves money from permitting takeover to early education

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The amendment process in the House Finance Committee wrapped up on Tuesday afternoon with a vast majority of proposals for increased funding on everything from education and child care to health care and snow plowing turned away by the...
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As legislators consider deficits, some call for ‘other options and other players’ beyond Alaskans’ dividends

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The last week has seen a surprising number of surprising pieces of the state's financial picture come into clearer focus. We saw the release of the state’s updated revenue forecast that erased any of the lingering shine on last year’s...
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How much will the Willow project cost Alaska? It really depends

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Following the announcement that the Biden administration had approved the Willow project on the North Slope—which is being hailed as the next big era in Alaska’s love affair with oil—the less-than-good-news hit: That under the state’s current oil tax...
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House Education Committee advances BSA bill meeting needs of co-chair’s school district

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The House Education Committee this morning advanced legislation to increase the base student allocation not to levels that statewide school advocates say is needed to stem cuts, but what the school district of the committee’s co-chair says it needs. Originally...
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Legislators split over the next steps on pay raise

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Update: The Senate has formally declined the House's request for a joint session to override the governor's veto. The Legislature voted unanimously to reject proposed pay raises for Gov. Mike Dunleavy and his cabinet but now that pay raises for...
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Sound off: House to take testimony on the operating budget, K-12 funding

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The Legislature is more than a third of the way through the voter-approved 90-day session (with no intention of hitting that deadline) and there are two big-ticket items up for public testimony this week: The state's operating budget, which...
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After cleaning house, all-new pay commission advances 67% raise for legislators: Report

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Part of the reason legislators swiftly moved legislation to reject pay increases for Gov. Mike Dunleavy and his cabinet was because the Alaska State Officers Compensation Commission didn’t recommend raises for them. In fact, the last time the panel...
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K-12 funding measure advances in Senate, faces uncertainty in the House

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With little fanfare, the Senate Education Committee on Monday advanced legislation to increase public school funding as districts around the state face a bad combination of rising inflation, expiring one-time money and years of otherwise flat funding from the...
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Biden approves Willow project, but legal battles loom

The Midnight Sun Matt Acuña Buxton -
The Biden administration on Monday gave the green light to the largest oil and gas development project in Alaska in several decades. ConocoPhillips’ Willow project in the National Petroleum Reserve on the North Slope is expected by its backers...
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As schools struggle, Gov. Dunleavy fires latest shot in right-wing war on sex ed, LGBTQ kids

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Education funding has been at the forefront of this year’s legislative session with many, many hearings about the tough decisions schools face throughout the state as expiring one-time pandemic money, high inflation and flat state funding have created massive...
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