U.S. Sen. Murkowski of Alaska endorses Nikki Haley in presidential race | #alaska | #politics
By Anchorage Daily News Updated: March 3, 2024 Published: March 3, 2024 Sen. Lisa Murkowski spoke with news media members in her Anchorage office on December 22, 2023. (Marc Lester / ADN) U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska has formally endorsed Nikki Haley as the Republican nominee for president ahead of the state GOP’s presidential […]
Read MoreAlaska’s Native and political leaders praise Supreme Court decision on Indian Child Welfare Act | #alaska | #politics
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- December 25, 2023
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On Thursday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act in a 7-2 decision. The ruling preserves a 35-year-old law intended to address the harm caused by the federal government’s boarding school program by prioritizing the placement of Alaska Native and American Indian children into tribal homes. Alaska Native […]
Read MoreSen. Lisa Murkowski discusses cabinet visits to Alaska, possibilities for 2024 | #alaska | #politics
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – August marks a busy month in Alaska, with many people – whether strangers to the state or not – on personal visits. The state is also primed for business trips during the summer season, including stops by multiple members of the Biden administration in 2023, with a lengthy list of them […]
Read MoreThe Political Logic Of Willow Project’s Approval | #alaska | #politics
community members demand President Biden stop the Willow Project. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for This is Zero Hour) Getty Images for This is Zero Hour In 2020, Candidate Biden pledged not to allow drilling on public lands and waters. In 2021, President Biden announced a target of reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 50-52% […]
Read MoreAlaska Native leaders, US senators back major oil project | #alaska | #politics
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska’s Republican U.S. senators and several Alaska Native leaders on Tuesday urged the federal government to approve a major oil project on the petroleum-rich North Slope, casting the project as economically critical for Indigenous communities in the region and important for the nation’s energy security. The Biden administration “damn well better […]
Read MoreThese Five Senators Brought Home $500 Million In College Earmarks | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
The FY 2023 federal funding bill contains scores of higher education earmarks worth hundreds of … [+] millions in new spending. getty Now that the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill has been signed, sealed and delivered just in time to meet the deadline for keeping the federal government open through next September, it’s clear that […]
Read MoreLawmakers quick to unload FTX founder’s contributions | #alaska | #politics
WASHINGTON – A writer’s workshop in Alaska. Food banks in California. A charity that fights diabetes. Lawmakers who accepted piles of cash from onetime wunderkind Samuel Bankman-Fried now can’t move fast enough to offload their contributions from the disgraced crypto mogul to anywhere else but their own campaign coffers. Before his arrest in the Bahamas […]
Read MoreAlaska Republicans hold ‘get out the vote’ rally | #alaska | #politics
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- December 7, 2022
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – It was an event full of Republican rallying cries for those hoping to turn Alaska fully red on election day. About 150 Republican activists gathered at a Alaska Republican Party event at the Anchorage Baptist Temple Sunday afternoon to rally the get-out-the-vote effort for GOP candidates. The message was loud and […]
Read MoreGOP’s Lisa Murkowski wins reelection in Alaska Senate race | #alaska | #politics
JUNEAU, Alaska – Alaska Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski has won reelection, defeating Donald Trump-endorsed GOP rival Kelly Tshibaka. Murkowski beat Tshibaka in the Nov. 8 ranked choice election. The results were announced Wednesday, when elections officials tabulated the ranked choice results after neither candidate won more than 50% of first-choice votes. Murkowski wound up […]
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