Alaska’s legislators racked up $763,411 in travel expenses in 2009 and 2010.
A legislative push to keep the state’s popular Senior Benefits program going after June is being held up in the Senate. But that may be good news for some seniors, including those at the Juneau and other state pioneer homes.
The checks of up to $250 a month go to low-income seniors, but the program that provides them will expire at the end of the state’s fiscal year in June unless the Legislature acts.
Representatives of the Alaska Permanent Fund appeared before the Alaska Legislature on Friday, explaining their investment strategies and defending their earnings returns.
House Majority Leader Alan Austerman won’t be among the lawmakers traveling to Washington, D.C., next week for an Energy Council conference.
Two advocacy groups on Friday criticized a proposed expansion of hate crime prosecutions, saying it was too broad and could be used to criminalize certain forms of speech.
The measure by Alaska Sen. Bettye Davis, D-Anchorage, would expand hate crime prosecutions to include crimes committed due to a victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity. It has passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
With the passage of the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill in the Senate earlier this month, and with the House version passing committee, Alaska’s congressional delegation celebrated a slew of developments they said would make the bill more beneficial to Alaskans
Echoing a sentiment expressed by some in the state’s construction industry, legislators in both the House and Senate are proposing a state transportation fund to supplement Alaska’s dependence on federal dollars.
State legislators are on their version of Spring Break the week of Feb. 28. About two-thirds of the Legislature will be in Washington, D.C., for the annual Energy Council conference.
A draft memoir by an ex-aide to former Gov. Sarah Palin paints a jarring and unflattering portrait of Chugiak Rep. Bill Stoltze.
The unpublished book by Palin insider Frank Bailey depicts Stoltze as an occasionally foul-mouthed player in what Bailey describes as Palin’s knowing violation of state election laws.
The state faces the prospect of the 800-mile trans-Alaska pipeline shutting down within the next decade if steps aren’t taken to boost oil production, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski told lawmakers Thursday