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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: 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: 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...
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: 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 ...
EDITORIAL: What happened to Alaska's swing-for-the-fences spirit?
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo News· 2 years 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 ...
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 ...
Letters to the editor: Sept. 18, 2022
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 2 years agoLast week we asked readers what issues and questions would you like to see posed to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and his Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke in what is likely to be their only ...
Breaking down RI's presidential primary ballots: Who's on them and how does it work?
The Providence Journal via Yahoo News· 4 months agoIf you believe polls, a majority of Americans question whether the two frontrunners for president –...