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From taxes and federal dollars, to schools and capital projects — Juneau asks for public comment to build its budget
Beginning at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday residents can comment — via phone or Zoom — on the city’s proposed tax hike, the plan for spending federal stimulus funds and using general funds, the school district budget and capital improvement project priorities.
Alaska providers pause use of Johnson & Johnson vaccine while feds investigate rare risk of blood clots
While the state of Alaska hasn’t weighed in yet on what an extended delay or potential loss of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine would do to its plans, some providers say it isn’t much of a burden.
Federal funds could fill in Juneau’s budget gap from last year and take a big bite out of next year’s
Last year, the city spent a lot of money during the pandemic that the Assembly hadn’t originally budgeted for — that’s everything from city busses running for free to standing up an emergency operations center.
Watch: Juneau to give its latest update on COVID-19
Juneau’s April allocation for vaccines will be 3,440 doses, which city leaders will divvy up between the hospital, local pharmacies and city-run vaccine clinics
Juneau’s new hospital CEO has been working at Bartlett for 28 years
The hospital’s Board of Directors chose current Chief Nursing Officer Rose Lawhorne to lead.
Bartlett Regional Hospital cited for infection control issues
Infection Preventionist Charlee Gribbon says inspectors found that the hospital has good policies but wasn’t always following them.
Two Alaska Senate staff members test positive for COVID-19
Nine total staff and lawmakers have tested positive so far this year.
Lawmakers to quiz Department of Labor over its handling of COVID-19 related safety
Whistleblowers leaked documents to them showing that Department of Labor commissioner Tamika Ledbetter blocked about $450,000 in fines that her agency’s inspectors wanted to levy against Copper River Seafoods.
Who is a journalist? Question remains after Dunleavy settles lawsuit with online news outlet Alaska Landmine
During the lawsuit — Dunleavy’s administration argued that Landfield isn’t a journalist. At least, not a traditional one. And ultimately that argument didn’t go anywhere. But the question has lingered. This isn’t a profession like law — you don’t get licensed to practice journalism.