Politics

Jun 10 2019
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Sen. Bert Stedman, R-Sitka, describes the $4.3 billion operating budget in the Senate chamber, June 10, 2019. (Photo by Andrew Kitchenman/KTOO and Alaska Public Media)

Alaska Senate sends budget to governor without PFDs

By | Economy, Education, Health, Politics, Public Safety, Southcentral, Southeast, State Government

It’s not clear how deeply Gov. Mike Dunleavy will cut using the line-item veto. Medicaid, the university and school bond debt reimbursement are the areas with the biggest increases over what he proposed.

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Jun 10 2019
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Eggs in a female red king crab. The laboratory studies the impacts of ocean acidification on crabs from the earliest life stages. (Photo by Eric Keto / Alaska's Energy Desk)

US House calls for more research on ocean acidification

By | Aleutians, Climate Change, Environment, Federal Government, Fisheries, Nation & World, Oceans, Politics, Science & Tech, Southcentral, Southeast, Southwest, Subsistence, Wildlife

Ocean acidification makes oceans more corrosive to crabs, clams and creatures at the bottom of the food chain, with impacts that reach all the way up.

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