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Albany Times Union
February 4, 2018
Zach Fansler during a House news conference in Anchorage, Alaska. Fansler, accused of hitting a woman during a night of drinking last month, has resigned. His resignation was announced on the House floor Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. Fansler, a Bethel Democrat, was under pressure to resign from HouseÃÂ ...
Juneau Empire
February 3, 2018
He added by phone that he was a registered Democrat when he was younger, and his nonpartisan status more accurately reflects who he is. Cotter arrived in Juneau in 1974 and worked at Juneau Cold Storage. He went on to become a labor organizer for the longshoremen's union and ran for an AlaskaÃÂ ...
Belleville News-Democrat
February 3, 2018
Two lawsuits filed Friday claim the federal government conducted petroleum lease sales without proper environmental review in a part of northern Alaska known for its wildlife. The Bureau of Land Management on Dec. 14 conducted the largest-ever lease offering within the National PetroleumÃÂ ...
Washington Examiner
February 2, 2018
Nearly 200 House Democrats have access to read, and have the legal immunity to release, a document that rebuts Republican claims of “FISA abuse” ... D-Alaska, who entered thousands of pages of the classified Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record in 1971, told the Washington Examiner heÃÂ ...
WPXI Pittsburgh
February 2, 2018
The Democrats, having none of it, said the four-page memo merely cherry-picks Republican talking points in an effort to smear law enforcement and undercut the current federal investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller. Rep. Adam Schiff, the committee's top Democrat, said the GOP documentÃÂ ...
KTOO
January 25, 2018
“He brings a blend of real-world experience, some very sterling academic credentials, and I think having (been) born and raised in the Kotzebue area and having family ties to both ends of House District 40, I think makes him uniquely suited for the job,” said Edgmon, a Dillingham Democrat. Lincoln is a viceÃÂ ...
Alaska Public Radio Network
January 18, 2018
Alaska Senate Republican leaders are pointing to rising oil prices as confirmation that their reticence to a proposed income tax was right. But the chamber's leading Democrat says relying on oil gains would be shortsighted. Andrew Kitchenman/Alaska Public Media-KTOO – Juneau. Lawmaker skips trainingÃÂ ...
KTVA
January 18, 2018
Alaska has almost seven staffers for every 10,000 Alaskans. That's the highest in the country by a wide margin. The number two state, Hawaii, has just four staffers for every 10,000 people. Alaska has more than three times the staff of the number four state, which is Rhode Island. Ohio has the smallestÃÂ ...
HuffPost
January 18, 2018
WASHINGTON ― Senate Democrats disappointed young undocumented immigrants in December when many of them voted for a government spending bill that left out deportation protections. Whether Democrats do the same again this week will depend on two things: their level of commitment to helpingÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
January 18, 2018
It was a raucous affair, but there wasn't a peep from Democrats about escalating public pension costs. A Republican ... “It's a tough issue for a Democrat to take on,” says Joe Nation, a former Democratic assemblyman. He's now a ... 1 is Connecticut at $38,000, followed by Alaska and Hawaii. In CaliforniaÃÂ ...
Belleville News-Democrat
January 18, 2018
Alaska Gov. Bill Walker is proposing legislation that would stiffen the penalties for distributing larger quantities of drugs and would allow judges to consider out-of-state criminal histories when determining bail and release conditions. He says current state laws for drug distribution have little deterrent effectÃÂ ...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
January 18, 2018
Knowles, a Democrat who served as Alaska's governor from 1994 to 2002, led a mass resignation Monday from the National Park System Advisory Board. The board is a congressionally chartered organization created in 1935 whose duties include advising the government on the designation of nationalÃÂ ...
Alaska Public Radio Network
January 18, 2018
Berta Gardner, the minority caucus leader, said a broad-based tax is still needed. “I hope that Alaskans are getting very angry about failure to take the necessary steps to pull ourselves out of this recession and this trouble,” she said. Gardner said the future of Alaska Permanent Fund dividends is in jeopardyÃÂ ...
KTVA
January 17, 2018
Alaska GOP names finalists to replace Dunleavy. 7 hrs 23 mins ... The Alaska Republican Party has narrowed down its initial list of 11 candidates to replace state Sen. Mike Dunleavy ... The Alaska Democratic Party recently sent three names to Walker in similar fashion to replace state Rep. Dean WestlakeÃÂ ...
New Haven Register
January 17, 2018
House Speaker Bryce Edgmon, a Dillingham Democrat, center, talks with House Minority Leader Charisse Millett, left, an Anchorage Republican, and House Majority Leader Chris Tuck, an Anchorage Democrat, before the start of the Alaska legislative session at the Alaska State Capitol on Tuesday, Jan.
Vox
January 5, 2018
Across the country there are currently 33 Republican governors, compared to just 16 Democrats (plus a lone independent, Alaska Gov. Bill Walker). ... Inslee says the Democratic Party is trying to course-correct an electoral formula that focused on the biggest races for the White House and Congress.
Juneau Empire
December 31, 1999
Democrats in the Alaska House of Representatives have confirmed John Agnaqluk Lincoln as the newest member of House. In a closed-door caucus meeting of the 16 House Democrats late Thursday, Lincoln was confirmed unanimously. The vote was announced by the caucus. Lincoln replaces Rep.
POLITICO Magazine
December 31, 1999
From his home on a “remote Alaskan island,” the Times Magazine reported a month before the 2004 Iowa caucuses, “Kreiss-Tomkins has become .... To the extent that the Democratic Party has helped in its own revival—and in transforming Alaska from deep red to a blue-ish purple—it was in part by gettingÃÂ ...
Alaska Public Radio Network
December 19, 2017
Assuming all goes as expected, this is a major win for Alaska's congressional delegation, and a big loss to environmental groups. ... Tiernan Sittenfeld said when she started working in Washington in 2000, the House had 30 or 40 Republicans who might vote with the Democrats on environmental issues.
Must Read Alaska (blog)
December 19, 2017
What will the Alaska Democratic Party do with Magoon? It's own executive director, Jay Parmley, had a history of public complaints of sexual harassment before he was even hired by the party. And yet they hired him anyway. The party called for the resignation of Rep. Dean Westlake after allegations thatÃÂ ...
Must Read Alaska (blog)
December 18, 2017
Must Read Alaska scanned dozens of comments from “Alaskans” and found a preponderance of what look to be fakes — from addresses in Alaska that ... In fact, it was hard to find many that appeared legitimate, although MRAK located comments from some Juneau Democrats that we deem “probably real.
Belleville News-Democrat
December 18, 2017
Alaska's marijuana control agency voted to revoke the license of a marijuana edibles manufacturer that was accused of selling moldy products. The state's Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office board voted on Friday to revoke the license of Anchorage-based Frozen Budz and to fine the company $500,000,ÃÂ ...
ABC News
December 18, 2017
Track Palin, the oldest son of former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, was arraigned Sunday in Alaska on domestic violence charges in an incident involving his parents, online court ... McCain and Palin lost the election to Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
CBS News
December 18, 2017
The "Cornhusker Kickback" and "Louisiana Purchase," proposals to get some reluctant Democrats on board? ... Some Democrats point to non-tax items attached to the bill, policies like ending the Obamacare mandate and allowing drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife reserve and say that's a bridge too far.
BGR
December 18, 2017
But Republicans have wielded its powers broadly in the last year, using it to overturn Obama-era regulations ranging from rules making it harder for the mentally ill to get guns, to preventing the killing of bear cubs in Alaska. Ironically, it's the same law that might give Democrats a second shot at preservingÃÂ ...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
December 17, 2017
For whatever public or private reasons, they joined the minority Democrats to create a Democrat majority in the State House. We respect their right to do that. They should respect the right of the volunteers of the Republican Party to get different candidates. The statewide volunteers of the Alaska RepublicanÃÂ ...
Must Read Alaska (blog)
November 29, 2017
Don Young of Alaska will become the Dean of the House, the longest-serving member. It's a position not held by a Republican lawmaker since ...
U.S. News & World Report
November 29, 2017
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Six lawmakers will review sexual and other workplace ... All are Republicans, except for Claman, who is a Democrat.
Vox
November 29, 2017
If they cannot stomach voting for Democrat Doug Jones, Roy Moore ... But some Alaskan voters and more mainstream Republicans ... “We'd bring together members of the fishing industry, and young Alaskans, and Democrats for Lisa. ... Murkowski also won support from a coalition of Alaska's indigenous ...
Alaskajournal.com
November 29, 2017
Patty Murray of Washington, the ranking Democrat on the Senate ... His posts at HHS allowed him to build relationships with Democrats, too.
Alaskajournal.com
November 29, 2017
One by one, the items on Alaska's wish list are being checked off as the first ... 8 and the prospect of Democrats trying to leverage immigration reform ... and a member of the Democrat-led majority, is supporting both legislation ...
Politico
November 29, 2017
Democrats' fight to keep oil and gas rigs out of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is losing ... The prospect of drilling in the untouched Alaskan tundra is as close to reality as it's been in ... ANWR, a swath of tundra on the northern Alaska coast, is home to polar bears, ... Alaskans support opening up ANWR.
Alaskajournal.com
November 28, 2017
28 developments also emphasized the leverage Democrats have as Congress faces a Dec. 8 deadline for passing legislation to keep federal ...
Belleville News-Democrat
November 28, 2017
The state-owned Alaska Aerospace Corporation has announced it's working toward starting a subsidiary company to operate in the private ...
Belleville News-Democrat
November 25, 2017
The commanding officer of Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak was fined after pleading guilty to a noncriminal charge of shooting a brown bear out ...
Belleville News-Democrat
November 25, 2017
The Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority is preparing for another season ... Beneficiaries include Alaskans with mental illness, developmental ...
Belleville News-Democrat
November 23, 2017
Three former construction workers have filed a lawsuit saying "ridiculous" working conditions at an Alaska chemical building resulted in brain ...
New York Times
November 16, 2017
It might be reasonable to say that if Democrats can't win it here and now, ... Alaska and West Virginia — are among the whitest in the country.
Alaska Public Radio Network
November 15, 2017
Democrats tried repeatedly kill or weaken the measure, but they failed to ... Steering Committee, one of the lead Alaska voices against drilling.
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
November 15, 2017
SEATTLE — Alaska Airlines says it will stop flying to Havana after demand dropped and the Trump administration imposed new restrictions on ...
FiveThirtyEight
November 15, 2017
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska opposed a bill and everyone else voted along ... So, if Democrats somehow win the Senate, they'll probably already ...
The Hill
November 15, 2017
The legislation is highly controversial, with Democrats and ... the drilling proposal is good for both Alaska, an energy-dependent state, and the federal ... Republicans and many Alaskans have long pushed to open up a portion ...
New York Times
November 15, 2017
Democrats attacked Republicans for inserting a repeal of the Affordable Care ... Ron Wyden of Oregon, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee. ... chairwoman, Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska.
CNN
November 9, 2017
The math just didn't work: Democrats would have to win three seats. ... Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said she talked to Sen. ... justice has helped Democrat Doug Jones so far run a closer-than-expected race in a deep-red state.
Juneau Empire
November 3, 2017
21, 2017. The two men were carrying exhibits to be used in their lawsuit against the state of Alaska on behalf of the Alaska Democratic Party.
Belleville News-Democrat
October 24, 2017
A commercial rocket is expected to launch in January or February 2018 at a state-owned aerospace company's facility on Kodiak Island.
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
October 24, 2017
Special session starts with contention over Alaska crime bill ... “Alaskans do want a fast fix and much like the governor, I can't stand to go another day ... Anchorage Democrat and Chair of the House Judiciary Committee Rep.
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
October 23, 2017
Walker, Mallott taking Alaska to a nebulous Neverland ... Alaskans would appreciate just the tiniest bit of honesty from this administration. ... Instead, the Democrats' governor and lieutenant governor throw out tired canards ... handwringing, do-nothing status quo, and the Democrat's tired reflex: tax, tax, tax.
NPR
October 22, 2017
Senate Democrats tried and failed Thursday to block oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The fight over drilling in ANWR has ...
Alaska Dispatch News
October 21, 2017
And it won support from some of Alaska's most liberal Democrats and ... who had help from a long-serving Senate Democrat, Johnny Ellis of ...
