Alaska
Anchorage Democrat alleges governor threatened Republicans before veto vote, prompting denials • Alaska Beacon | #alaska | #politics
Two days after the Alaska Legislature failed to override Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of a wide-ranging education bill, the effects of that failure continued to reverberate across the state. In a newsletter published late Tuesday, Rep. Zack Fields, D-Anchorage, said the governor “threatened to campaign and spend $70,000 per race against any Republicans who voted […]
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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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