JUNEAU—Friday, the Alaska Senate passed Senate Bill 187, otherwise known as the capital budget. The budget totals $450 million of general fund dollars and is carefully crafted to promote infrastructure projects throughout the state, address the state’s backlog of deferred maintenance, support statewide weatherization, and increase resources for food security, among other priorities. “For many […]
“House Republicans had a bad day,” said one reporter, listing challenges and changes to leadership as a government shutdown looms. The U.S. House of Representatives started a two-week recess on Friday, but not before a series of events that provoked fresh declarations of what has become a familiar phrase over the past few years: “Republicans in disarray.” Before leaving […]
The Association of Alaska School Boards is deeply concerned about the governor’s veto of SB 140. This veto sabotaged several weeks of hard work and bipartisan collaboration by the legislature to provide a significant investment in public education that would have benefited every school district and student in the state. Instead, the governor has decided […]
THE WHITE HOUSE — U.S. President Joe Biden laid out his 2025 government spending priorities on Monday in a $7.3 trillion plan that has little chance of being enacted by the politically divided Congress. Biden touted the proposal as he traveled to New Hampshire to sell Americans on his plan to increase taxes on the wealthy […]