Newsletter
Day 25: Scattered debris
Like so many debris on scattered on sea ice, it's a little scattered this week.
Day 23: 'It's like you don't give a hoot about our community.'
“Have you seriously considered resigning?”
Day 22: Anchorage HR director Tshibaka is out
An increasingly toxic, hostile, and demoralizing work environment for thee, not for me.
Day 21: The bipartisan Freshman Caucus and worthwhile tension
“I get that you’re new,” he said, on a committee where four of the seven members are new.
Day 17: Senate goes big on school funding/Chief Justice Winfree gives a fitting farewell
"With apologies to Led Zeppelin and ‘Stairway to Heaven,’ and those too young to understand the reference."
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
Changes and next steps.
Day 15: EPA delivers long-awaited veto of Pebble Mine
What ought to be the conclusion of the decades-long fight over the mine was cause for celebration for just about everyone except for Gov. Mike Dunleavy, the mine’s biggest booster in elected office.
Day 14: Education funding, the budget and carbon offsets
With a big call for increased education funding, it's hard to ignore the governor's budget doesn't exactly have a lot of room for new spending and that new revenue is a long ways off.
Day 10: ‘We're just asking for the crust’
Education advocates ask for what looks like a big increase to K-12 funding, but would just maintain the status quo amid escalating inflation.
Day 9: Conservative public pension plan runs into conservative opposition
What if the teachers want this, too?
