Half of Anchorage Assembly seats are up for election, but few candidates have filed so far
With less than a month to go before the Jan. 24 filing deadline, only six candidates have expressed formal interest in running for six of the Assembly seats up for grabs in April. One of those ...
Trump pledges ditching Denali in favor of Mt. McKinley, but Alaska senators pan plan: 'Awful idea'
President-elect Trump pledged to rename Denali back to Mount McKinley, catching heat from Alaskan lawmakers, including in his ...
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Alaska Republicans Reject Trump Plan to Rename Mountain Honoring Indigenous People After Pro-Tariff President Who Never Visited Alaska
Alaska Republicans have offered resistance to President-elect Donald Trump's proposal to change the name of the highest ...
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Alaska senators vote in favor of bill expanding Social Security benefits for Alaska’s public sector workers
Alaska’s U.S. senators voted in favor of a bill that is set to increase Social Security benefits for thousands of the state’s ...
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Empire Archives: Juneau’s history for the week ending Jan. 4
Empire Archives is a series printed every Saturday featuring a short compilation of headline stories in the Juneau Empire ...
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Senate vote sends bill boosting Social Security benefits for 15,000 Alaskans to Biden’s desk
The bill would repeal benefit reductions affecting people who spent part of their career working for an employer not ...
Trump vows to give America’s tallest mountain its old name back, defying Obama change
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to return the old name of America’s tallest mountain, nine years after then-President ...
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Sumpter: How Alaska is making government work again
Meredith Sumpter At the end of a bitter and closely divided election season, there’s a genuine bright spot for democracy from our 49th state: Alaskans decided to keep the state’s system of open ...
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Alaska senators vote in favor of bill expanding Social Security benefits for Alaska's public sector workers
Dec. 23—Alaska's U.S. senators voted in favor of a bill that is set to increase Social Security benefits for thousands of the state's residents. The measure, known as the Social Security ...
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Alaska senators vote in favor of bill expanding Social Security benefits for Alaska's public sector workers
Dec. 23—Alaska's U.S. senators voted in favor of a bill that is set to increase Social Security benefits for thousands of the state's residents. The measure, known as the Social Security Fairness Act, ...