Corrupt process makes for bad government • Alaska Beacon | #alaska | #politics
We appreciate the arduous task legislators are charged with to assemble a balanced budget in order for Alaskans to live, play, work and study in this great state. However, the Alaska Public Interest Research Group (AKPIRG) objects to the 67% legislators’ salary increase on the basis of the corrupt process by which these salary increase […]
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Alaska pays $350,000 to settle last wrongful-firing lawsuit from loyalty-pledge scheme • Alaska Beacon | #alaska | #politics
The state of Alaska has paid $350,000 to settle a four-year-old lawsuit that found Gov. Mike Dunleavy and his former chief of staff personally liable for illegally firing a state attorney. The settlement with Elizabeth Bakalar ends a series of state and federal lawsuits triggered when Dunleavy and former chief of staff Tuckerman Babcock — […]
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The number of legal conflicts between Alaska and the federal government is rising sharply | #alaska | #politics
The number of legal conflicts between the state of Alaska and America’s federal government has risen significantly over the past decade, according to a review of annual reports filed by the Alaska Department of Law. Since 2013, the department has been required to inform the Alaska Legislature annually about legal disputes between the state and […]
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Alaska’s Native and political leaders praise Supreme Court decision on Indian Child Welfare Act | #alaska | #politics
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Google-News-Wire
- December 25, 2023
- Alaska Federation of Natives
- Alaska Natives
- Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Tribes of Alaska
- Congressman
- congressmen
- council
- democrats
- economy
- elections
- governor
- Indian Child Welfare Act
- Lisa Murkowski
- Mary Peltola
- mayor
- politics
- president
- republican
- senator
- Treg Taylor
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 […]
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