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The Alaska State Capitol. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire File)
No-bid contract for psychiatric institute raises questions
By Kevin Baird Juneau Empire • February 13, 2019 4:10 pm

A previous report advised against privatizing the institute.

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Andy Jones, Director of the Department of Health and Social Services’ Office of Substance Misuse, right, speak about the fiscal impacts of the opioids on the state along with Michael Duxbury, Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Public Safety, center, and Laura Brooks, Director of Health and Rehabilitation for the Department of Corrections, in front of the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
The opioid crisis costs Alaska more than $1B...
By Alex McCarthy • February 13, 2019 3:30 pm

The cost of an epidemic.

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Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s Office of Management and Budget Director Donna Arduin presents the governor’s supplemental budget to the Senate Finance Committee at the Capitol on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
Budget director’s history of cutting with ‘hatchet, not...
By Kevin Baird Juneau Empire • February 6, 2019 7:00 am

How much power should the position have?

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School buses drop students off at Thunder Mountain High School on Monday, Sept. 21, 2015. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
Gov’s bills includes $20M slash to education
By Kevin Baird Juneau Empire • January 30, 2019 5:30 am

The money was already approved.

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Rep. David Talerico, R-Healy, speaks during a press conference with Rep. Sarah Vance, R-Homer, left, and Rep. Colleen Sullivan-Leonard, R-Wasilla,at the Capitol on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
Reps talking, but House still unsettled
By Kevin Baird Juneau Empire • January 30, 2019 5:30 am

The House is a week away from a dubious record.

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The logo for the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District is displayed inside the George A. Navarre Borough Admin Building on Thursday, July 22, 2021 in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
Borough to lose $1.4 million under proposed Dunleavy...
By Victoria Petersen • January 30, 2019 1:30 am

School district says it can’t afford cut to education

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Hello? Cellphones banned on Senate floor
Hello? Cellphones banned on Senate floor
By Kevin Baird Juneau Empire • January 16, 2019 6:39 pm

Sen. John Coghill said Tuesday evening he is considering a revision of a ban of cellphone usage on the Senate…

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Republican Party candidate for District 31 representative Sarah Vance waits for results to come in at an election night party at Land’s End Resort on Nov. 6, 2018, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
Vance holds constituent meetings this week
By Staff Report Homer News • January 2, 2019 7:05 pm

Rep.-elect Sarah Vance, R-Homer, will visit with District 31 residents at these times and places:

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From left, Alaska state Sens. Bert Stedman, R-Sitka, Lyman Hoffman, D-Bethel, and Gary Stevens, R-Kodiak, sit in the House chamber to hear Gov. Bill Walker deliver his annual State of the State address on Jan. 18, 2017. After several years of budgets passing late and forcing education pink slip notices, Stevens, the Senate Education Committee chair, is introducing a bill to mandate an education budget by April 1. (Photo/Mark Thiessen/AP)
Big issues in Legislature will be PFD, budget...
By Michael Armstrong • December 26, 2018 3:04 am

Heading into his 19th year as a state senator, Sen. Gary Stevens, R-Kodiak, has some advice for Homer’s newest legislator,…

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In this file photo, Sen. Cathy Giessel, R-Anchorage, reads one of the two versions of HB 111 dealing with oil tax credits during a Conference Committee hearing at the Capitol on Wednesday, July 12, 2017. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire File)                                 In this file photo, Sen. Cathy Giessel, R-Anchorage, reads one of the two versions of HB 111 dealing with oil tax credits during a Conference Committee hearing at the Capitol on Wednesday, July 12, 2017. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire File)
Republicans pick Giessel as new Alaska Senate president
By BECKY BOHRER ASSOCIATED PRESS • November 20, 2018 3:17 pm

Republicans have maintained control of the Alaska Senate and chose Sen. Cathy Giessel of Anchorage to be the new president…

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Elections workers hand count ballots after the 2016 statewide primary election. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
Dead Alaskans attempt to vote in Anchorage
By James Brooks • August 30, 2018 7:33 pm

The Alaska Division of Elections is investigating why seven dead people requested absentee ballots for the close-fought primary election in…

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