Interior

Apr 22 2019
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Lawmakers strike compromise on scaling back conflict of interest restrictions

By | Economy, Interior, Politics, Southcentral, State Government

The Senate passed an earlier version of the bill, which would have repealed the conflict of interest provisions entirely. The House passed its own version. A conference committee agreed on the compromise Monday.

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Apr 02 2019
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Bill would extend moratorium on state reimbursing municipalities for school bonds

By | Economy, Education, Interior, Northwest, State Government

The state has been reimbursing municipalities for most bond debt for school bonds issued before the moratorium. It doesn’t have a legal obligation to do that. Local voters are told when they approve bonds that the state’s share is subject to the annual state budget process.

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Mar 27 2019
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Bernadette Demientieff, director of the Gwich’in Steering Committee, waits to testify at a U.S. House hearing on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Which Native voices? On ANWR, lawmakers practice selective listening.

By | Alaska Native Corporations, Alaska Native Government & Policy, Arctic, Economy, Energy & Mining, Environment, Federal Government, Interior, Nation & World, North Slope, Politics, Subsistence, Wildlife

Rep. Don Young told his colleagues to disregard the anti-drilling Gwich’in witnesses, while pro-development Iñupiaq witnesses accused Democrats of erasing them from the land that’s been their home for centuries.

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