Governor Mike Dunleavy and First Lady Rose Dunleavy are grieving the passing of former Senate President Lyda Green. Senator Green passed away peacefully earlier yesterday in Soldotna. “Lyda was more than a colleague and a neighbor, she was a family friend and I counted on her for sound advice, experience and wisdom throughout my time […]
As I enter my sixth year as Alaska’s governor, the Fiscal Year 2025 budget introduced this past week reflects a continuing policy to be guided by priorities rather than the price of oil. Alaskans well understand how quickly prices can swing in either direction, and the past five years have offered no shortage of reminders […]
Although the official announcement that Thomas Riggs would become the third Territorial Governor of Alaska wouldn’t come until much later, President Woodrow Wilson let it be known unofficially, on July 20th, 1917, that he had made his choice as to who was going to replace John Franklin Alexander Strong as the new governor of the […]