Lawmakers are working on a resolution affirming friendship with and appreciation of Alaska’s neighbor to the east and opposing punitive trade policies against that nation.
State Government
Alaska legislators predict dire effects if Congress cuts Medicaid funding
A budget resolution this week puts the U.S. House on track for significant cuts to Medicaid, with big effects in Alaska.
Alaska Senate leaders propose reducing oil tax credits as deficits loom
As the state faces an estimated half-billion-dollar deficit between this year and the next, Alaska Senate leaders are reviving options for raising revenue.
Top Alaska House legislators reject plan to allow fish farms
In a written statement, Speaker of the House Bryce Edgmon, I-Dillingham, and House Rules Committee Chair Louise Stutes, R-Kodiak, said the bill will not aid the state’s commercial fishing industry.
With bipartisan support, Alaska Senate panel again proposes new PFD formula
The ’75-25′ split proposal is worth about $1,420 per recipient this year but faces budgetary obstacles.
Alaska governor proposes lifting state’s longtime ban on fish farms
If signed into law, HB 111 wouldn’t allow salmon farming, but it would allow the farming of “any bony fish belonging to the osteichthyes class.”