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EDITORIAL: The reversal of Jay Hammond's Permanent Fund dream
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMay 20—As the Alaska House of Representatives flew through a one-day special session and swiftly signed off on a Senate budget with a narrowly tailored capital package aimed at swaying key votes ...
EDITORIAL: Alaska's Permanent Fund can't afford trustee's half-baked statements
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo News· 6 months agoDec. 16—The history of the Alaska Permanent Fund is one of our state's great success stories — a rainy-day fund established by Gov. Jay Hammond and the Legislature in the height of the oil boom ...
EDITORIAL: Should any governor get to wield this much power?
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo News· 3 months agoMar. 2—In many ways, Gov. Mike Dunleavy's tenure as the head of Alaska's executive branch of government has been marked by paradoxes. The governor is a self-professed fiscal conservative who ...
Alaska Senate panel advances resolution to lower threshold for overriding governor's budget vetoes
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo News· 3 months agoMar. 19—The Alaska Senate State Affairs Committee on Tuesday advanced a resolution that would lower the veto override threshold for spending bills. The committee action, which paved the way ...
EDITORIAL: The man who reshaped Alaska
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo News· 7 months agoNov. 11—As we approach the 100-year anniversary of former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens' birth on Nov. 18, the magnitude of change he wrought in Alaska has only become more important since his death ...
Outdoors writer to reflect on career, achievements at library
Petoskey News Review via Yahoo News· 3 months agoGAYLORD — Jim DuFresne, who managed to take his love of the outdoors and turn it into a career, will...
Dunleavy seeks to remove decades-old boards overseeing Alaska parks
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo News· 3 months agoMar. 9—Wood-Tikchik State Park, at more than 1.5 million acres, is the largest state park in the U.S. Located north of Dillingham in Southwest Alaska, the park — which includes headwaters important ...
EDITORIAL: What happened to Alaska's swing-for-the-fences spirit?
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo News· 1 year agoDec. 10—downtown, downtown anchorage, sunset, winter After a major but well-predicted snowstorm blanketed Anchorage in more than a foot of snow this past week, only two-thirds of the municipality's ...
'A life on the mud' for setnetter who fishes from Bristol Bay beach
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAug. 29—This story was reported as part of a collaboration between the Anchorage Daily News and The Seattle Times, with support from the Pulitzer Center's Connected Coastlines reporting initiative ...