Legislature finalizes $1,100 PFD after nearly fumbling it away
It looked like the session was going to end without a dividend but upon further review, one legislator decided that a $1,100 PFD is better than none.
2021 session
Budget, PFD stall as House GOP minority makes one last push for big payout
“This is way beneath Alaskan standards,” said House Speaker Louise Stutes.
Can legislative minorities hold government hostage? Effective date lawsuit tentatively moves forward
The case has its own legal problems that will need to be sorted out before it gets to the meat of the issue.
The firefighter and the arsonist. Gov. Dunleavy fans the flames of a shutdown
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Something doesn’t add up with Dunleavy’s dividend plan
Somehow the governor’s team figured out a pain-free plan to pay out huge dividends. Someone should get ahold of the legislators who’ve been pushing far more modest plans to let them know they can have their cake and eat it too.
Senate’s scaled-back disaster bill would put serious limits on Dunleavy’s spending power
The long-awaited rollout of the Senate Finance Committee’s version of legislation extending the state’s covid-19 disaster declaration didn’t feature any talk about case rates, hospital…
House member tests positive for covid-19, House closes for the day
The Senate will not be shutting down.
State of the Session a third of the way in: MEMO
A progress report on the 2021 session.
As GOP senators push to end disaster declaration, health officials raise alarms
The state warns that repealing the disaster declaration would undermine its vaccination efforts.
House elects Patkotak as temporary speaker: ‘We’ll get through whatever we’re getting through right now’
It’s the first meaningful sign of progress for the chamber’s organization since the Legislature began.