Washington, D.C.— Wednesday, Representative Peltola announced the 15 Community Project Funding (CPF) requests that she will submit to the relevant House Appropriations subcommittees in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 budget cycle. CPF requests are budget requests submitted by members of the House of Representatives to support specific projects in their districts. Only certain accounts which […]
The Alaska House of Representatives voted 38-1 on Wednesday to approve a fast-moving budget bill that spends as much as $365 million to cover a shortfall in state revenue caused by lower-than-expected oil prices. The bill also includes $6.8 million to immediately address a crisis in the state’s food-stamp program. Staffing shortages have created huge […]
Anchorage, Alaska – Museums Alaska representatives—Dixie Clough, director of Museums Alaska, and Patty Relay, executive director of the Valdez Museum and Historical Archive and Museums Alaska Treasurer—will join hundreds of museum advocates in-person in Washington, D.C. on February 27-28 to petition our government and make the case for museums. Joined by museum leaders from across […]
The M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust has awarded $1 million to Cook Inlet Tribal Council (CITC) to build a Super Fab Lab that is four times the size of its current “fabrication laboratory.” The new, bigger and better lab will allow the tribal organization to support STEAM education for many more Anchorage youth and entrepreneurs as […]