As Juneau plans to celebrate the 100th birthday of the Alaska Legislature, former state Sen. Vic Fischer has a wish: “I would love to see the kind of bipartisanship that we had during my service in the Legislature in years past. There was a civility and a general feeling of collaboration and cooperation across party lines that we don’t seem to see much anymore.”

Fischer, who was in the territorial Legislature in the 1950s and the state Senate in the 1980s, says what’s happening in the state is a reflection of what’s happening in nationally.