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Alaska GOP Rep. Vance threatens boycott of Homer News over Charlie Kirk coverage

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This story has been updated to more accurately reflect Kirk's quote on how Black women like U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson "do...
Opinion

If it wasn’t for the low bar set by Dunleavy, this special session would be a humiliating defeat

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Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy's special session is set to expire on Sunday without accomplishing any of his goals.
Education

As Dunleavy’s special session peters out, legislators cut their own path on education

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The special session still isn’t going anywhere with just a few days left on the clock.
Opinion

Legislators’ pair of veto overrides was a truly remarkable rebuke of Dunleavy

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Originally published on akmemo.com. With no votes to spare, the Alaska Legislature this weekend voted to override the governor's landmark veto of the state's baseline...
Education

Dunleavy serves up reheated leftovers for the special session

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Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy's snap special session this weekend is definitely not just about ensuring his slate of deeply unpopular vetoes.
Federal Government

Murkowski didn’t spare Alaska from Trump’s megabill; she just delayed the pain

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Alaska U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski called her decisive vote for Trump’s megabill “agonizing.”
News

Dunleavy calls special session while legislator is on deployment in bid to skirt veto overrides

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Gov. Dunleavy called a special session starting at the beginning of August, ostensibly to push for policies that legislators have already rejected.
Commentary

Dunleavy compounds rural school troubles with latest veto of teacher housing bill

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For a governor who supposedly cares deeply about schools and rural Alaskans, Dunleavy doesn’t seem interested in making their lives easier.
News

Dunleavy’s oil tax secrecy reveals the faults in Alaska’s oil system

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Alaska’s oil tax system is complicated even by tax standards.
News

Dunleavy’s veto of oil tax transparency bill leaves legislators wondering, ‘What are you hiding?’

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On Monday, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoed a bill that legislators had hoped would shed light on how his administration is handling oil and gas taxes
Economy

Hiring teachers from the Philippines could mean brain drain for Filipino schools

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When Alaska school administrators toured Pajo Elementary School, each class greeted them by welcoming them to the Philippines in both English and in Filipino.
Economy

New teachers are latest wave in the centuries-long history of Filipinos in Alaska

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The first Filipino known to visit Alaska came in 1788, aboard a Spanish trading ship called the Iphigenia Nubiana.
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