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Capitol Live: House leadership talks budget process
Capitol Live: House leadership talks budget process
Opinion: Alaska needs a smaller, sustainable budget

Opinion: Alaska needs a smaller, sustainable budget

We can’t run away from the problem with taxes.

  • Mar 27, 2019
  • By LANCE ROBERTS
Opinion: Alaska needs a smaller, sustainable budget
Opinion: Alaska’s budget must be brought in line with our ability to pay for it

Opinion: Alaska’s budget must be brought in line with our ability to pay for it

We have allowed our budget to grow far beyond our means in this declining oil era.

  • Mar 27, 2019
  • By ALEXANDER HOKE
Opinion: Alaska’s budget must be brought in line with our ability to pay for it
Opinion: Invest in Alaska by investing in ferry system

Opinion: Invest in Alaska by investing in ferry system

Defunding them threatens the prosperity, health of our coastal communities and villages.

  • Mar 20, 2019
  • By ALAN GROSS
Opinion: Invest in Alaska by investing in ferry system
Opinion: AIDEA is critical to resource development in Alaska

Opinion: AIDEA is critical to resource development in Alaska

The state needs to develop its abundant natural resources.

Opinion: AIDEA is critical to resource development in Alaska
Planet Alaska: Woven with herring

Planet Alaska: Woven with herring

Sharing herring is caring.

Planet Alaska: Woven with herring
Opinion: The firecracker budget and Green New Deal

Opinion: The firecracker budget and Green New Deal

A warning against the shrinking marketplace of ideas in Alaska’s budget debate.

  • Mar 17, 2019
  • By RICH MONIAK
  • budget
Opinion: The firecracker budget and Green New Deal
Opinion: I ran into Gov. Dunleavy on the street. Here’s what I wish I told him.

Opinion: I ran into Gov. Dunleavy on the street. Here’s what I wish I told him.

We should all hope that Standing Tall means more than treating the lands and people of our great state as simple warehouse widgets.

  • Mar 12, 2019
  • By Kevin Maier
Opinion: I ran into Gov. Dunleavy on the street. Here’s what I wish I told him.
Doug Vincent-Lang, Commissioner Designee for the Department of Fish & Game, speaks in front of the House Fisheries Committee at the Capitol on Thursday, March 7, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

Fish and Game appointee looks for more state, not federal, control over fisheries

The importance of fishing and hunting isn’t lost on Alaskans or lawmakers.

Doug Vincent-Lang, Commissioner Designee for the Department of Fish & Game, speaks in front of the House Fisheries Committee at the Capitol on Thursday, March 7, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
Power costs in rural Alaska could go up under governor’s proposed budget
Power costs in rural Alaska could go up under governor’s proposed budget
Opinion: Day of reckoning for Alaska’s budget has arrived

Opinion: Day of reckoning for Alaska’s budget has arrived

Everyone must share in the cost of an economically healthy state.

  • Mar 5, 2019
  • By LARRY PERSILY
Opinion: Day of reckoning for Alaska’s budget has arrived
Juneau Empire reporters Kevin Baird, left, and Mollie Barnes interview Gov. Mike Dunleavy at the Capitol on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

Empire Exclusive: Read our full conversation with Gov. Mike Dunleavy on the budget

Gov. says businesses will come back to Alaska if budget is balanced.

Juneau Empire reporters Kevin Baird, left, and Mollie Barnes interview Gov. Mike Dunleavy at the Capitol on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
Empire Exclusive: Read our full conversation with U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski

Empire Exclusive: Read our full conversation with U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski

Senator says incentives need to be put in place to stop government shutdowns.

Empire Exclusive: Read our full conversation with U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski
Fighting for funding: How proposed budget would affect the University of Alaska

Fighting for funding: How proposed budget would affect the University of Alaska

“Education is a job creator.”

Fighting for funding: How proposed budget would affect the University of Alaska
‘We’ve got to get our fiscal house in order’: Dunleavy opens up about budget proposal
‘We’ve got to get our fiscal house in order’: Dunleavy opens up about budget proposal
Capitol Live: Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute presents to Fisheries committee

Capitol Live: Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute presents to Fisheries committee

Follow along with live updates from Alaska’s Capitol.

Capitol Live: Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute presents to Fisheries committee
House creates first ever Tribal Affairs committee

House creates first ever Tribal Affairs committee

Committee will focus on partnerships between tribes and state government.

House creates first ever Tribal Affairs committee
Opinion: Time for budget honesty

Opinion: Time for budget honesty

It’s fair to ask whether Gov. Dunleavy deliberately misled voters.

  • Feb 24, 2019
  • By RICH MONIAK
Opinion: Time for budget honesty
Co-Chairs of the House Finance Committee Rep. Tammie Wilson, R-North Pole, left, and Rep. Neal Foster, D-Nome, listen to Donna Arduin, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, as they hold their first meeting of the session at the Capitol on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

Capitol Live: House members change offices

The latest news from the Alaska State Capitol

Co-Chairs of the House Finance Committee Rep. Tammie Wilson, R-North Pole, left, and Rep. Neal Foster, D-Nome, listen to Donna Arduin, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, as they hold their first meeting of the session at the Capitol on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
Opinion: Fishermen need Sen. Murkowski’s support against Pebble Mine

Opinion: Fishermen need Sen. Murkowski’s support against Pebble Mine

It’s the wrong mine for the wrong place.

  • Feb 21, 2019
  • By ALEXUS KWACHKA and JACK JACOBY
Opinion: Fishermen need Sen. Murkowski’s support against Pebble Mine