Legislative aides call Anchorage Democratic Rep. Tarr abusive, unfit for state Senate
In a series of interviews, they describe a decade-old pattern of behavior.
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House Majority is ’21 strong’ after Rep. Tarr joins
The House is still playing catch up and leaders in both chambers say this session is likely to go long.
Anchorage Rep. Tarr is out of the House Coalition over committee dispute
It’s not an immediate death knell for the House Coalition’s hold on the House but it’s not great.
State of the Race: Legislative Races, Day 2 (House Districts 11-20)
Today, we’ll be exploring House Districts 11 through 20, which covers the remainder of the Mat-Su Valley, Palmer, Eagle River and the northeast and downtown areas of Anchorage.
AKLEG Recap, Day 92: $500,000 contraceptive study bill faces skepticism in House
Senate President Pete Kelly, the sponsor of the contraceptive study bill, faced tough questioning by the House Finance Committee.
Proposed gun violence bill is as much about preventing suicides as it is about mass shootings
The bill’s gained traction and attention as a tool to combat mass shootings, but many supporters say it’ll be a far more important tool for combating Alaska’s leading form of gun deaths: suicide.
The Midnight Sun Podcast for July 9, 2017
It has been an odd week in Alaska politics. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg came to the Last Frontier, learned our savage ways, and decided to educate the world about them (only to get a few details wrong). Then, with our endless legislative special session now set to focus on oil industry tax policy (HB 111), the Republican State Senate Majority, including Sen. Pete Kelly and Sen. Cathy Giessel, seemingly held a press conference to rail against cushy cash subsidies state government gives to oil companies. Wait, it was Republicans complaining about what a sweet, sweet deal the resource industry gets in Alaska? Democrats in the House Majority responded by holding a press conference of their own to point out some fine print in the GOP theater that makes the Senate plan much more oil friendly than they let on. Casey Reynolds and Forrest Dunbar sort through all of those political shenanigans, talk some healthcare and weed policy, and even bring in Alaska Tax Division Director Ken Alper to explain the fine points of oil tax policy at play in the HB 111 fight.
Friday in the Sun!!! (February 10)
Assembly races shake out, Demboski goes after Giessel, and Tarr just looses it, It’s Friday in the Sun!!!
State Senate Races Already Worth Watching
The deadline for candidates to file for office isn’t until June 1, but here are some of the State races that are already drawing our attention.
Begich joins Flynn in race for Downtown Anchorage Senate seat
It looks like the race to replace Senator Johnny Ellis has gone from “nonexistent†to “fully heated†in less than 12 hours…and without Ellis even saying he will need to be replaced.