"Tammie Wilson"

Gov. Mike Dunleavy has said Alaskans should receive permanent fund dividends of roughly $3,000 this year. But it won’t be easy for state lawmakers to agree on the dividend’s size.

The vote was the latest action in a stalemate that’s preventing Alaska’s House of Representatives from beginning work this session.

For the first time in the Alaska Permanent Fund’s 40-year history, the Legislature has adopted a plan to draw money from the fund to pay for state government. Gov. Bill Walker says he’ll sign it.

Under this compromise bill, the Legislature would have to set PFD amounts each year, or it would have to set a formula through a different bill.

The last two years, many teachers received layoff notices because the Legislature passed the budget too late for school systems to write their budgets.

Opposition to Linden’s appointment to the Board of Certified Direct-Entry Midwives was centered on Planned Parenthood’s role in providing abortions.

The House had been stalled for days, when the majority split over the size of the PFD. Six members of the majority reversed their position.

Concern over the dividend’s future led House members to propose a constitutional amendment, House Joint Resolution 23.

North Pole Rep. Tammie Wilson says fellow lawmaker Gabrielle LeDoux should resign because she failed to promptly respond to a legislative staffer’s complaint that she was sexually harassed by a lawmaker who was later forced to resign over those and other allegations.

An Alaska lawmaker is calling for state Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux to resign her post as chairwoman of the House Rules Committee, claiming she failed to investigate a sexual harassment complaint from a legislative aide.