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JUNEAU — Alaska’s oil and gas trade association has launched a campaign against a Senate bill that would increase taxes on the industry as a way to help fill the state’s structural deficit.
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The Legislature’s oil and gas consultant said the proposed hike would likely not impact current production, but there could be downside risk to investment in future projects.
Print article Two weeks before the November election, attack ads started showing up on Facebook targeting independent and Democratic state legislative candidates. “Calvin Schrage is no independent,” said one of the ads, referring to the independent candidate for a House seat representing the Anchorage Hillside. “He is a typical liberal Democrat.” The group paying for the ads, the Council on Good Government, received nearly all of the $380,000 it raised from a single group: the Washington, D.C.-based Republican State Leadership Committee. But only after votes were counted did the RS...