Alaska governor bans big new contracts with companies that boycott Israel • Alaska Beacon | #alaska | #politics
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy issued a far-reaching administrative order on Monday that calls for public agencies to stop doing business with companies that support an economic boycott of Israel. The order makes Alaska the 38th state to take executive acts or pass legislation against boycotts intended to support Palestinians. Many of those actions are years […]
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Alaska House votes to advance bill that would trim state voter rolls more quickly • Alaska Beacon | #alaska | #politics
The Alaska House of Representatives has voted along bipartisan lines to shorten the time needed to remove someone from the state’s voting registry. The move is part of an effort to deflate the state’s voter rolls, which currently contain many more people than are eligible to vote in the state, an artifact of the state’s […]
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Alaska House committee advances legislation to repeal ranked choice voting | #alaska | #politics
Rep. Sarah Vance, R-Homer, speaks with Rep. Zack Fields, D-Anchorage on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023 at the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau. (Loren Holmes / ADN) The Alaska House Judiciary Committee voted Wednesday to advance a bill that would repeal ranked choice voting and open primaries. The bill was first proposed last year by Homer […]
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Letter: Alaskans don’t need an Arkansas extremist
By Nina Faust Updated: 12 hours ago Published: 12 hours ago Alaska House Judiciary Committee members should have learned from Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s hiring of Donna Arduin (Kauranen) in 2020 as his director of the Office of Management and Budget, that hiring someone without any background knowledge of Alaska is not in the best interests […]
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