Anchorage Assembly's outlaw budget blows through tax cap
From polka dots to prison stripes? This was the first time in Anchorage history that the Assembly has gone so far as to violate the tax cap.
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Breaking: Anchorage Assembly blows through tax cap, violates charter with revised budget
There’s a first time for everything: This is the first time the Assembly has broken the law in this particular fashion. It appears there will be a special meeting today to fix the Assembly’s outlaw budget. There has been a sudden “motion to reconsider.” Agenda here.
Meanwhile, in Fairbanks, a special election to up the tax cap
In February, the Borough Assembly adopted Ordinance No. 2024-07, which calls for a Special Election to be held on Tuesday, May 7, to place the following question before the qualified voters of the Borough:
"Shall the Fairbanks North Star Borough be authorized to increase its maximum allowable tax revenue for areawide taxes by $10,000,000 to fund education?
The additional tax revenue includes taxes from any areawide source, including property taxes, tobacco excise tax, hotel-motel room tax, alcoholic beverage tax, or marijuana and marijuana product sales tax. If the additional revenue is solely raised through property tax revenue, it is the equivalent of approximately 1 mill or $100 per $100,000 of assessed taxable value of real property."
For many residents that will mean at least another $300 a year in taxes.
Peltola takes a pass on Alaska’s Right to Produce Act, refuses to stand for Arctic Slope communities
Alaska’s only House member disrespected Alaskans by snubbing oil and gas economy.
Two faces of Peltola: She told colleagues to vote ‘no’ on Alaska’s Right to Produce, while she voted ‘present’
It gets worse: She wrote to colleagues and told them to vote no, while she voted “present.”
Grilling Griffin: Senate Education chair attacks Board of Education member during confirmation hearings
The most passive-aggressive committee chair in the Legislature peppered the school board member, but didn’t faze him.
No-budge judge who killed correspondence courses for Alaskans says decision is in effect June 30
He's not giving an inch to the governor. NEA wins all the way for government indoctrination camps. Judge Zeman killed correspondence, then killed it again just to make sure it’s dead in Alaska.
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Alaska Senate passes operating budget with funds for education, homeless sheltering, snow removal, small PFD, energy relief
Evidently the move to give tribal police jurisdiction over non-tribal members of the community didn't go over well.
Chickaloon Tribal Police will not get Alaska State Troopers’ special commissions after all
A few people in the community were very concerned about being stopped and harassed by tribal police.
Eaglexit education committee to unveil school district proposal at upcoming public meeting
Learn more about what Eagle River schools could be like under a new borough, one that is outside of the Anchorage School District.
Contrails contained? FAA releases final rule limiting carbon particles from aircraft engines
Jet engines are going to get a lot more expensive. Wonder what that will do to cost of travel.
AG Taylor joins lawsuit against ATF over gun restrictions
A pushback on Biden's continuous assault on the constitution.
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Question of the week — Wake up call for universities
This day in history
May 3, 1917, District Gov. John F. A. Strong approved a bill that created the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines, today the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
May 3, 1979, Margaret Thatcher of the Conservative Party was elected British prime minister, becoming the first woman in Europe to hold that post.
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No one is coming to save us. We have to stand for America or lose it forever.
Bidenomics has been a disaster for Alaskans
Meanwhile, Alaska’s only member of the House of Representatives, Mary Peltola, has been voting with the president in support of these policies over 90% of the time.
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Victims should not have to testify and relive their trauma, authors say.
Dave Bronson: A call for Assembly action on Anchorage’s homeless crisis
The Anchorage Assembly has voted against every one of the mayor’s proposals to address homelessness, while at the same time publicly denouncing that he has not proposed any solutions.
David Eastman: Alaska’s Ethics Committee engages in election interference, violates ethics laws
Those who judge the ethics of lawmakers should be above reproach.
David Boyle: Senate teams with teachers’ union to kill student opportunities
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David Boyle: Education industry tries an end run around the courts
Hayden Ludwig: Automatic voter registration exists to keep Democrats in power. Why aren’t Republicans fighting it?
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Win Gruening: Huna Totem dock project inches forward, Assembly decisions await
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Robert Seitz: Railbelt utility, electricity, gas, and how we move forward
No other single solution can help keep energy prices stable enough to move our economy forward.
Dan Sullivan: Biden helps Iran, hits Alaska
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