
Matt Acuña Buxton
Matt is a longtime journalist and longtime nerd for Alaska politics and policy. Alaska became his home in 2011, and he's covered the Legislature and more in newspapers, live threads and blogs.
- Anchorage, Alaska
- 513 Posts
'Low-risk doesn't mean no risk.' The problem with playing the odds with covid-19.
“If we have 1,000 people test positive," said Dr. Zink. "We would expect 260 of them to be children, 23 of them to be hospitalized, five of them to die."

If Bronson and Dunleavy won’t step up on covid-19, they should at least stop making it worse
At worst they've actively fueled the vitriol that has made the entire situation that much worse and at best have refused to confront disinformation in any meaningful way.

'We are the worst place in the pandemic.' Alaska begins rationing care statewide
Meanwhile, Gov. Dunleavy downplayed the severity of the pandemic and argued enhanced prevention isn't needed. “We’re on top of this. We’ve always been on top of this."

Political opportunism is dragging out the pandemic and state's fiscal uncertainty
Oh, God. Not another special session.

The definition of insanity
Isn't doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results the definition of something? Ah, right, Alaska politics.

Have a nice trip, see you later this fall
If the Legislature was stumbling yesterday, it's fallen flat on its face today.

A divided Legislature stumbles once again
Can the Legislature get a budget passed and/or a covid bill passed? Reply hazy, try again later.

A step forward and two unvaccinated steps back
The Senate passes a bill that looks like it'll create more problems than fix with the pandemic, a look at redistricting, the budget and weekend watching.

'The less covid, the better for us.'
Bronson goes pro-covid, a covid-19 bill advances, redistricting, the budget and the reading list.

Hospital capacity matters but fewer covid-19 cases would be even better
Ask not what Alaska's hospitals can do to meet the covid-19 surge, ask what we can do to reduce the covid-19 surge that's straining Alaska's hospitals.
