Fairbanks, Alaska – Governor Sean Parnell Tuesday cleared the way for a new power plant at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF). During a visit to the UAF campus, the governor signed Senate Bill 218, providing the university with $157.5 million of revenue bond issuance authority for the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Atkinson Heat and […]
Ketchikan, Alaska – In front of a packed, joint Ketchikan Chamber and Rotary meeting, Governor Sean Parnell Monday signed legislation authorizing the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA) to finance the Bokan and Niblack mines on Prince of Wales Island. Senate Bill 99 also provides a loan of up to $18.6 million for […]
As the drugs used for lethal injection becomes scarcer and scarcer with the advent of European-led boycotts of drug sales for that purpose, Tennessee’s governor Bill Haslam signed legislation in that state to bring back executions via the electric chair. The electric chair measure, sponsored by State Sen. Ken Yager, that sailed through both the […]
Georgia’s Governor Nathan Deal signed that state’s House Bill 60, or the “Safe Carry Protection Act of 2014” in tolaw on Wednesday. This new state law will allow Georgia residents to carry concealed weapons into many areas that were traditionally off-limits to concealed firearms such as bars, school zones, hospitals, government buildings and even certain areas […]