Alaska Legislature
Even at its second-most volatile point, Alaska can't quit oil
Ultimately, forecasts are just forecasts, and as House Majority Leader Chuck Kopp joked on the House floor on Monday, "the sole purpose of oil price forecasting is to make astrology look respectable."
The oil price roller coaster and Begich's legislative address
Let's unpack the latest tribulations on oil prices through the very best of metaphors – the roller coaster.
As legislators rail against feds accessing voter info, Dunleavy officials say they'd do it again
State officials say they wanted to be good partners with the Trump administration.
A legend lost, a teacher leaves and chilling questions for ICE
Alaska lost one of the best to ever put ink to paper.
A shocking arrest rattles the Legislature and a long-overdue oil tax rewrite lands
It's a bigger problem than just the Anchorage Young Republicans or even the Alaska Republican Party.
Sullivan Sullivans and the Senate advances Mount Edgecumbe bill
The handful of questions he did permit made it pretty clear why he doesn't take many outside his carefully curated sphere of safety
Sullivan's safe space, sales tax dumped and PFD panic
A time crunch or a convenient excuse? A fix for a flailing bill. And is the PFD really going away?
Legislators, local governments and Alaskans pan Dunleavy's silly sales tax pitch
Dunleavy's flimsy fiscal plan ran into one of the most thorough demolitions of a bill to take place over the course of a single legislative day.
State's salary study conveniently lost in 'Byzantine bureaucracy'
The state argues the latest delay is because they need to go out for a second study to study whether the implementation of the salary study is feasible.
The Alaska Disconnect
Ultimately, as the report outlines, the question of “who pays” is not just about Alaskans versus non-residents, but poor and middle-class Alaskans versus ultra-wealthy Alaskans.
