WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Lisa Murkowski today successfully added a key amendment to the 2015 State and Foreign Operations spending bill to restore the J-1 Visa program through Fiscal Year 2015 and help Alaska’s seafood processors statewide hire needed staff – after the State Department had suspended visas due to concerns rising from Lower 48 activities. […]
Vic Kohring, the former state legislator who pleaded guilty to a federal felony for accepting bribes in 2011, has now decided to run for the U.S. Senate seat in the upcoming election. It was in 2007 that Kohring was convicted by jury on corruption, bribery and extortion charges, he was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison for […]
At a meeting of the GOP’s rank and file on Wednesday afternoon, Eric Cantor who lost his re-election bid in the 7th congressional district in Virginia, announced that he will be stepping down from his position as House Majority Leader effective July 31st. Cantor also announced that he won’t run again in the general election […]
In the largest political upset of U.S. House leadership in years, the U.S. House second-in-command Eric Cantor went down in shocking defeat to little known, Tea Party-backed David Brat in the Virginia primary on Tuesday. The Tuesday defeat sent shockwaves through the Republican rank and file who expected Cantor to handily defeat his unknown rival, Brat, […]
ANCHORAGE: After signing the two largest budgets in state history and taking Alaska from a $5 billion surplus to a $2 billion deficit, Sean Parnell is bragging about his fiscal record. In a fundraising email remarkable for its unintended irony, Parnell pats himself on the back for cutting state spending, when the state’s operating budget […]
ANCHORAGE: Shortly after rejecting Dan Sullivan’s anti-subsistence lawsuit, a court ordered Mead Treadwell’s Division ofElections to provide ballots in Yupiq, Cupik, and Gwich’in after Treadwell had refused to. Yesterday’s court decision is the latest in a series of defeats in the Parnell Administration’s attacks on Alaska Native voting rights, subsistence, and tribal sovereignty. “Dan Sullivan, […]
Anchorage – Last week Representative Les Gara (D, Anchorage) wrote oil companies calling on them to pull radio and TV campaign ads they are funding, falsely implying oil production is going up under the 2013 oil tax law they are campaigning for. ConocoPhillips responded directly, refusing to stop the deception. The other three have not yet replied. “Oil companies should level […]
Just hours after announcing the resignation of VA Secretary Eric Shinseki, President Obama accepted a second resignation, this one from White House Press Secretary Jay Carney. Carney served as Obama’s press secretary for three and a half year. President Obama interrupted Carney as Carney was beginning his daily news conference today and announced that Carney was […]
On the heels of a government investigation that found widespread problems with the health care given to America’s veterans, the head of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, General Eric Shinseki submitted his resignation to the White House after a meeting with President Obama, and it was accepted by the with “considerable regret.” President Obama […]