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Dormant Alaska government spending database to be revived by The Associated Press Last Updated Feb 4, 2021 at 10:28 am EDT ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The state of Alaska plans to resurrect an online tool for tracking government spending that was shut down last year. The Checkbook Online system is scheduled to be available to the public again by Friday, Alaska Public Media reported Tuesday. A fiscal note drafted by Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration estimated establishing the new system would cost about $400,000. The administration said the previous system lacked internal controls, as...

Print article JUNEAU — After a testy hearing that saw a Alaska state senator questioning the state health commissioner’s constitutional loyalties, the administration of Gov. Mike Dunleavy has twice declined to testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee led by Sen. Lora Reinbold, R-Eagle River. On Monday, Reinbold said on the Senate floor and in an email to fellow legislators that she has canceled two hearings because the administration refused to testify in person about public health mandates intended to curtail the COVID-19 pandemic. A spokesman for Dunleavy said Reinbold will...

Print article The Eagle River lawmaker who last fall criticized Alaska Airlines for their mask policy on Wednesday expressed “constitutional concerns” about Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s COVID-19 health mandates. Republican state Sen. Lora Reinbold, in her first meeting as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, invited testimony from a Harvard professor who co-authored a disputed treatise by three infectious disease specialists who oppose broad lockdowns and school closures. Wednesday afternoon’s session on Alaska’s COVID-19 restrictions and public health emergency declaration also feat...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska lawmaker has introduced a bill to partially dismantle...

Print article JUNEAU — The first bill to be heard in the Alaska Legislature this year would partially dismantle voting-by-mail systems used by Anchorage, Juneau and other cities across Alaska. Sen. Mike Shower, R-Wasilla, said Senate Bill 39 is intended to strengthen the security of Alaska’s election system in a nonpartisan way, but several legislative observers began circulating alarmed emails on Friday, with Native Peoples Action asserting that Section 22 of the bill “may ban municipalities from having vote-by-mail elections.” That section would prohibit cities and boroughs from ...