Supreme Court rejects biased state-prepared summary of oil tax initiative
The court upheld a lower court’s ruling that Lt. Gov. Kevin Meyer, a former oil company employee, had biased the summary of the oil tax initiative.
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Comic: Sealed with a Kiss
Kevin Canceled.
Open primaries would encourage ‘thoughtful leadership,’ say backers of Ballot Measure 2
The hope is that candidates will have to broaden their appeal to all voters in a district instead of the relatively small group of voters that participate in primaries.
GOP Sens. von Imhof, Stevens take leads as incumbents make up ground with absentee ballots
While there’s good news for legislators who narrowly trailed on election night, the window is fast closing for others.
Dunleavy’s chief lawsuit-loser Clarkson resigns after it turns out he’s a creep
Clarkson was set to return to work for Gov. Dunleavy next week.
Comic: Temporal Distortion
Anime time skip.
Army Corps backs off Pebble Mine approval following bipartisan pushback over impacts to Bristol Bay
“The project, as proposed, would likely result in significant degradation of the environment and would likely result in significant adverse effects.”
Friday in the Sun (Aug 21.): The ‘I don’t know because I’m not there’ edition
What, me worry?
Dunleavy FINALLY proposes critical change to CARES Act program months after businesses demanded fixes
The state has been telling businesses to just refund tens of thousands of dollars of federal aid in order access the state program. The new changes would allow businesses to keep the money.
Complaint accuses group opposing election reform initiative of skirting election law
The complaint says the Alaska Policy Forum, its director and Dunleavy’s former campaign manager have been violating Alaska campaign law for months.