As America’s largest banks post record profits, massive companies continue their unprecedented stock buyback spree, and already-obscene CEO pay packages are set to rapidly expand in the aftermath of the Trump-GOP tax cuts, top corporate executives are now openly admitting that they have no plans whatsoever to invest their enormous windfall into wage increases for workers. During what Axios described as a […]
JUNEAU – House Bill 331 cleared a legislative hurdle on Thursday, passing the House of Representatives, with bipartisan support. The measure must still be approved by the Senate. The measure was introduced by Governor Bill Walker and enables issuance of bonds to pay small oil and gas exploration companies the tax credits they were promised […]
Sunday morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee planned to hear three bills that would preserve the Permanent Fund Dividend and protect public safety. Instead, these bills were effectively killed by the Senate Majority. On Friday, Senator Bill Wielechowski (D-Anchorage) and two other committee members sent a letter to Senate President Pete Kelly (R-Fairbanks) asking that the […]
JUNEAU – Senator Tom Begich (D-Anchorage) introduced a Sense of the Senate Monday urging the Permanent Fund Corporation to divest their investments from all Russian companies that are on the United States’ sanctioned list since 2014 for undermining Ukrainian sovereignty and the illegal annexation of Crimea. “These investments represent 0.1% of the value of the […]
