Friday in the Sun!!! (October 7)
Judge Guidi’s partisan bias, new race polling, and more NRA drama. It’s Friday in the Sun!!!!!
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What Are Lawmakers Trying To Achieve With The State Budget?
To help boil things down, here are two short floor speech clips that pretty well encapsulate the budget positions of the State Senate Majority and Minority. Don’t worry, they are short and largely free of numbers and acronyms. They don’t and aren’t intended to give you the depth of detail of the budget, but rather the values each side is basing their positions upon.
Governor Walker Rejects Calls For Gas Price Investigation
It isn’t easy to tell someone no during the holiday season, but that is exactly what Governor Bill Walker has done to Sen. Bill Wielechowski. Walker told Wielechowski there would be no new investigation into alleged gasoline price fixing in Alaska.
A Tale of Two State Budget Presentations
I’ve been curious how average Alaskans, consumed by their daily lives and seemingly uninterested in policy minutiae, were digesting all of this budget talk. Since no broad-based statewide polling has yet been made public, I thought I would attend two very different budget presentations for audiences of opposing political views to see just how those audiences were taking it in.
Senate Democrats Hire New Press Secretary
Senate Democrats Hire New Press Secretary to Help Communicate Progressive Agenda for Alaska FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 7, 2015 ANCHORAGE — The Alaska Senate Democratic Caucus…