Continuing a push for an education policy that respects the uniqueness and variety of Alaska’s classrooms, U.S. Senator Mark Begich is urging the State of Alaska to apply for a waiver to the burdensome and broken No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).
KODIAK, ALASKA-This Friday evening, just before 8 pm, a De Havilland Otter, tail number N361TT, operated by Paklook Air and flown by 49-year-old James Andie, crashed on a return trip from Old Harbor, where they had dropped off freight and passengers. The crash occurred approximately five minutes out from the airport in Kodiak near Heitman […]
WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Senators John Thune (R-S.D.), Ranking Member of the Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security?, and Mark Begich (D-Alaska), also a member of the Subcommittee, Wednesday led a bipartisan group of 27 Senators in sending a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) urging them […]
Alaskan Congressman Don Young submitted the following testimony at yesterday’s House Natural Resources Committee hearing on “ANWR: Jobs, Energy and Deficit Reductionâ€: