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Showing posts with label Alaska Legislature 2015. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alaska Legislature 2015. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Alaska Legislature Determined To Give Alaska The Record

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The headline in this morning's Alaska Dispatch News front page: "GOP legislators eye health, education for cuts"  The hea...
Monday, October 19, 2015

Gov Wants Special Legislative Session To Do Three Things

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Alaska's governor has sent the legislature an 'agenda' for the special legislative session that begins in Juneau on Saturday.  H...
Thursday, September 24, 2015

At Least Ten Legislators attend Alaska Fiscal Forum

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While some legislators and their staff are getting bad press for spending $400 and more per night in Seattle hotels and $90,000 altogether...
Saturday, September 19, 2015

Busy Day - Alaska Budget Forum and Quaker Wedding

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It's a little after 10pm and I'm only just getting to my computer for the first time today.  That's generally a good sign, and t...
Tuesday, September 08, 2015

Cutting 40% Of Legislative Research Office

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Today's Alaska Dispatch News had a headline story about how the Alaska Legislature had cut its own research office by 40%.  There are a...
Sunday, August 30, 2015

Alaska's $400K Donation To Support DC Law Firm's Anti-Obama Care Campaign

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How else can we explain this?  Alaska Superior Court judge Frank Pfiffner soundly rejected the Legislative Council's court challenge t...
Saturday, August 29, 2015

Forbes Tells It Like It Isn't - Bluster Meets The Judge

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From a puff piece in Forbes online : "Gov. Bill Walker and his lawyers plan to argue that Medicaid expansion is required by federal ...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

My Plan To Save The State Of Alaska At Least $700,000

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Before I offer my plan to save all that money, let me offer some background Decision to sue governor The Alaska Legislative Council - 14...
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Wednesday, August 19, 2015

State Legislature Sues Governor Over Medicaid Expansion

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The ADN has the story .  Basically  "a Republican-controlled House-Senate committee voted 10-1 to authorize spending up to $450,00...
Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Reasons Why Alaska Legislature Republican Majority Leaders Hate Governor Walker

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Alaska's Republican majority leaders have done their best to show their disdain for Governor Walker.  They refused to meet in Juneau des...
Sunday, June 14, 2015

When Is A Bear Not A Bear? Face Saving Medicaid Review?

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From yesterday's Alaska Dispatch: The Alaska Legislature plans to hire a consultant to help lawmakers separate “fact from fict...
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Finance Committee Amendments - More Session Starting At 8AM Tomorrow

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They're offering a series of amendments that I can't find online.  They've passed them out, but can't really figure them out...

Sort of Restored HB 44 (Erin's Law) Testimony Done at Sen Finance

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Erin's Law public testimony is done.  Finance committee's changes returned the key parts of Erin's and Bree's Law - it'...

Finance Committee Rewrite of Erin's Law Has Big Improvements

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I'm at the public testimony for HB 44 Erin's Law. I wrote up a synopsis of an earlier post that argued that at least 2000 kids wou...
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Thursday, June 04, 2015

Roles Legislators Play: You Can't Tell the Players Without A Program

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Having spent a fair amount of my life at university committee meetings gives me a certain insight in how people behave at meetings.  There a...
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Tuesday, June 02, 2015

Hiring A Mediator: Is Alaska's Governor Trying To Be The Adult?

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Governor Walker has hired a mediator to try to get the two houses of the Alaska legislature to resolve their differences and pass a budget. ...
Friday, May 29, 2015

My Math Says At Least 2000 Kids Will Be Abused Because Of Dunleavy's Changes To Erin's Law

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On May 24, Senator Dunleavy posted a long response on Facebook to the critics of his changes to HB 44, now CS HB 44.  I've responded ...