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Dunleavy's vetoes highlight the right's weird agenda
It may all be a coincidence or it may be pretty weird.
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Matt Acuña Buxton

August 2024

RCV repeal effort highlights 'the danger in the discretion'
The state, opponents argue, bent over backward to help the initiative to repeal ranked-choice voting and open primaries. Would they do the same for a…
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Let’s overreact to the primary election
Alaska's favorite pastime.
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Republicans are having a weird time with open primaries and ranked-choice voting
Am I so out of touch? No, it's the voters who must be wrong.
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Unopened polling places are unfortunately 'nothing new' for rural Alaska
No news would be good news.
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July 2024

580 signatures
It’ll be difficult to prove there’s fire beneath all this smoke, but there sure is a lot of smoke.
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Homeschool ruling reversed by technicality
You are technically correct, the best kind of correct.
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June 2024

'We have a housing shortage, so what?'
The question, to me, is what does preserving the city’s quality of life even mean?
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The road to November
A look at the state of the race.
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Matt Acuña Buxton

May 2024

'A bigger role'
We’re already looking at a rematch-packed election cycle that has the potential to reshape the Alaska Legislature.
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AKLEG: Sine Die
In this edition, I’ll be breaking down four things that caught my attention… then taking another nap.
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AKLEG Day 119: 'Destroying an ant with a bulldozer'
While Republicans seemed split between simmering transphobia and complete apathy to the issue, the House Minority didn’t make it easy or fast with a…
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