Alaska
Alaska politicians contemplate first statewide borrowing request since 2012 • Alaska Beacon | #alaska | #politics
Alaska lawmakers are considering whether to ask voters for permission to borrow money for major upgrades to the state’s electrical grids, they said this week. Last year, the U.S. Department of Energy awarded the Alaska Energy Authority a $206 million grant to upgrade electrical transmission lines in Southcentral Alaska. That grant must be matched by […]
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Alaska
Alaska Senate passes new pension program for state employees, but final approval is in question | #alaska | #politics
The Alaska Senate on Wednesday approved legislation to revive a pension program for state employees, an act that could bring new benefits to as many as 37,000 Alaskans and is intended to ease a chronic employee shortage at state agencies. Alaska has been without a public-employee pension program for new workers since 2006, when the […]
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