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Once-certain AKLNG tax cut deal unravels as legislators grapple with S-corp taxes, secret agreements and slights

Matt Acuña Buxton - 0
Legislators are midway through the second special session of the year.
Politics

Christian Nationalist lawmaker gets a slap on the wrist for threatening paper over Charlie Kirk coverage. She says she’s being silenced.

Matt Acuña Buxton - 0
Homer Rep. Sarah Vance likely violated state ethics laws when she used her legislative office to threaten the Homer News over its coverage of a memorial she helped organize for Charlie Kirk.
Cartoon

Veto governor

Holly Todd - 0
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.
Cartoon

“Alaska voters are savvy”

Holly Todd - 0
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.
Courts

Free legal aid services in Alaska get a boost from state and foundation funding

Corinne Smith, Alaska Beacon - 0
More Alaskans are set to have access to free legal aid as Alaska’s largest provider of legal assistance for civil cases gets a boost in short and longer term funding from the state and the Rasmuson Foundation. 
News

Confidential document guided Alaska senators working on natural gas pipeline tax break

James Brooks, Alaska Beacon - 0
A secret agreement provides the most detailed insight yet into one of the world’s largest prospective natural gas projects.
Elections

‘You don’t need any special legal training to smell a rat.’ Legislators question Dan J. Sullivan’s removal from the ballot

Matt Acuña Buxton - 0
At Monday's joint hearing of the House State Affairs and Judiciary committees on the Division of Elections' decision to block a Petersburg man named Dan J. Sullivan from running against U.S. Sen. Dan S. Sullivan, it was pretty clear that many Republicans had already accepted the narrative as true and the response warranted. 
Economy

AKLNG bill advances out of the House, highlighting state’s geographic divide

Matt Acuña Buxton - 0
The AKLNG subsidy bill advanced out of the House on Friday on a 35 to 4 vote.
Economy

AKLNG bill advances without the option for local governments to cut their own deals

Matt Acuña Buxton - 0
With a little more than a week remaining in Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy's special session, the gasline subsidy bill is nearing a vote in the House.
Commentary

AKLNG’s proposed gas contract highlights the project’s underlying challenge: There just aren’t that many Alaskans

Matt Acuña Buxton - 0
The AKLNG special session continued this week, giving more clarity on what will be an undeniably difficult project, no matter the subsidy lawmakers ultimately approve.
Commentary

Risk-averse legislators dismiss the AKLNG ‘razzle dazzle’ to drill down on the giga-project’s details

Matt Acuña Buxton - 0
The biggest takeaway from the first full week of hearings on Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s proposed multi-billion-dollar, multi-decade subsidy for the natural gas pipeline project is that the state sure is lucky that lawmakers’ efforts to rush the bill through didn’t pan out.
Opinion

Dunleavy’s latest vetoes are a reminder that a lot will have to wait for a new governor

Matt Acuña Buxton - 0
Alaska’s 2026 regular legislative session came to a largely smooth ending last week.
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