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Editor’s note: As this year’s regular legislative session nears it’s scheduled May 17 adjournment, this is a live blog-style roundup of things the Empire is covering, as well as other items of interest and bits of weirdness from the Capitol.
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A billion extra dollars for a mega-Permanent Fund dividend is crowding out investment for literacy and health programs that are orders of magnitude more affordable.
If you care about meeting our climate change goals and preserving a planet that our children will want to inhabit, now is the time to support President Biden — including his decision to move forward with Alaska’s Willow energy project. As environmentalists, we cannot afford to live in a world ignorant of Russian and Chinese…
The Wrangell School District would receive an additional $425,000 in one-year state money under a budget headed toward approval in the Alaska House, falling short of a permanent increase in
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It is possible to preserve a “statutory” PFD and increase education funding without draining the Permanent Fund.