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It was a quiet day outside of the Capitol, where it rained through most of the afternoon. It also was quiet inside the Capitol, where lawmakers were meeting in small groups as they attempted to form majority caucuses in both chambers.

He said the state’s crime rate is high relative to others and that it could improve.

Dunleavy expressed concern that protests could spread COVID-19.

Alaskans in the state’s three largest cities take to the streets in response to the death of George Floyd, a black man in Minneapolis who died after being arrested.

There was an underlying sense among protesters that essential civil liberties were being denied because of the city’s and state’s health directives.

More than 750 protesters packed the street in front of the Alaska Capitol on Monday, calling for the state Legislature to override Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s budget vetoes. 

While the new advisory committee for the Pebble Partnership met for the first-time in Anchorage on Monday, opponents of the Pebble Mine gathered outside for a rally.

On the chilly plains of North Dakota, organizers estimate that around 2,500 people are now gathered near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation to support the Great Sioux Nation, or Oceti Sakowin, in their efforts to stop an oil pipeline from crossing under the Missouri River near their reservation. Recently, two Athabascan men from Alaska visited the camps in Cannonball, ND.

Rep. Don Young, Alaska’s longest-serving lawmaker, visited Sitka on the last day of the Republican National Convention. He was scheduled to speak to the Chamber of Commerce. But he first had to pass through a group of pretty disgruntled constituents. Seven Sitkans clustered at the back entrance of the Westmark Hotel, awaiting Congressman Young and…

Berrigan became emblematic of the opposition to U.S. involvement in Vietnam. He served time in jail for an audacious act of civil disobedience.