What’s at stake?
And whoever wins on Tuesday (when the RCV votes are tabulated three weeks from then) will face the tall task of making Alaska into more than just “America’s natural resources warehouse.”
And whoever wins on Tuesday (when the RCV votes are tabulated three weeks from then) will face the tall task of making Alaska into more than just “America’s natural resources warehouse.”
Just days after signing a bill that the courts said would provide certainty for the state’s scholarship program, the Dunleavy administration is asking the fund be left in limbo.
And as if to put a fine point on the reality of budget cuts, these cuts will impact low-income families more than others. All but one of the targeted schools are Title I, meaning they have a larger proportion of students who are eligible for free and reduced lunches.
A hard deadline for the investigation to be completed or released publicly has not been announced.
There’s no immediate effect on state finances, but continued losses would reduce available cash for services and dividends.
To opponents, the vetoes targeting of schools, the University of Alaska, child care, workforce development and seniors was evidence that not everything has changed over the last four years.
The Alaska Legislature failed to pass legislation requiring the state to sell assets in Russia.
The budget links $650 of the payment to a critical vote that has been impossible to secure in recent years: accessing the constitutional budget reserve.
Conservatives supporting the spending say it’s all fine because no one’s been following the rules anyways.
Within 30 minutes of the announcement, former Gov. Bill Walker endorsed the plan.