Public health experts across the country are examining excess deaths as they study whether significantly more people are dying from COVID-19 than what’s being recorded.
Andrew Kitchenman
State Government Reporter, Alaska Public Media & KTOO
State government plays an outsized role in the life of Alaskans. As the state continues to go through the painful process of deciding what its priorities are, I bring Alaskans to the scene of a government in transition.
Rep. Josiah Patkotak elected temporary speaker in unorganized Alaska House of Representatives
The step doesn’t resolve the divide that has prevented the chamber from picking a permanent speaker and organizing committees or from considering legislation.
11 days after appointment, Alaska Attorney General Ed Sniffen leaving job
Dunleavy’s office announced the departure on Friday and said Treg Taylor would replace Sniffen as the attorney general.
Dunleavy talks pandemic, big dividends and resource development in virtual State of the State address
Dunleavy spoke by video through a livestream rather than in the traditional venue of a joint session in the Capitol.
Gov. Dunleavy proposes bill to extend Alaska’s COVID-19 disaster declaration through September
The bill would extend Dunleavy’s fourth declaration of the pandemic, which is set to expire on Feb. 14.
Concern about Alaska’s foster care future under Dunleavy plan to split state health department
President Richard Peterson said Tribes should have been consulted before the state rolled out the proposal, not after. He notes that most children in Alaska’s foster system are Alaska Native.