
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
- 511 Posts
AKLEG Day 85: ‘What’s not in the budget?’
The central question moving forward is just how much room there really is in the budget.

AKLEG Day 84: 'The absence of a compelling reason.'
A long litany of unanswered questions hasn’t stopped Gov. Mike Dunleavy and his Republicans from pushing to enact right-wing changes to education policy in Alaska, and that didn’t change on Monday.

AKLEG Day 67: 'Establish and maintain'
Former Gov. Bill Walker broke the norms of the PFD law. Now, Dunleavy is effectively doing the same with the BSA.

AKLEG Day 65: 'Significant consequences'
As “adults play their political games” in Juneau, districts face tremendous, community-dividing uncertainty as they turn to cuts.

AKLEG Day 63: 39-20
While Republicans claimed there's still time to fund schools, the future is far from certain.

AKLEG Day 63: 'I will be voting to override'
Since when does the governor get to tell the Legislature how to do things?

AKLEG Day 60: 'Move on'
Gov. Mike Dunleavy would very much like legislators to simply give up on the education bill he vetoed. That's what he's planning on doing.
