Shana Blogs the Leg on Education Issues

I never got to meet Shana in Juneau, but she does leave comments here and one said that What Do I Know? helped get her start her own blog.  (I think she was saying politely, "if some yahoo from Anchorage can come down to Juneau and blog the legislature from scratch, I can do this."  And she's right.) We need more blogs like this one - it watches the legislature closely on one specific topic:  Education.  It's called Alaska Education Update.  So for those who want more legislative coverage, albeit focused on Education, here's a good place to go.  And she knows a lot more about what she's doing than I knew about what I was doing. 

Today's post  starts like this:

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Senate Floor Debate on SB 230 - Capital Budget

So much for posting every day until the end of session!  Oh dear!  How about a posting on yesterday's floor debate on the capital budget?

SB 230 – Budget: Capital, Supplemental, & Other Appropriations

http://www.legis.state.ak.us/basis/get_bill.asp?bill=SB%20230&session=26

The Senate passed CSSB 230(FIN) 19 yeas, 1 nay. Sen. Bunde voted against the bill. SB 230 has been transmitted to the House and was referred to the House Finance Committee. It is scheduled for a hearing on Wednesday, April 14 at 8:30 a.m. (See the “Saturday, April 10, 2010 CSSB 230(FIN) AKEDUPDATE” for a list of education-related projects.)  . . .  [The rest is here.]