As lawmakers debate whether or not to use to draw on the Constitutional Budget Reserve for the purpose of covering a portion of the state’s budget deficit this year, you might be wondering exactly what the CBR is, how it works, and what it can do for Alaskans.
Alaska’s state House and Senate are scheduled to meet at 2 p.m. Tuesday to vote on whether or not to override Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of a bill increasing the state’s per-student funding formula.
A controversial bill is moving through Congress, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act — better known as the “SAVE Act”— if passed, would amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.
Father Madison Hayes is a priest for the Archdiocese of Anchorage-Juneau based in the Mat-Su Valley. In 2017, he was sent to the Pontifical North American College in Rome and lived in the Vatican for four of those years during his studies. Hayes said he was able to catch a glimpse of the Pope often.
With sap flowing through the birch trees of interior Alaska once again, researchers at OneTree Alaska are comparing sap from 300 birch trees in Fairbanks as part of a forest research grant.
As leaders from a newly formed group of dozens of central and southeast Alaska dads speak out against Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s education funding veto last week, some supporters of the veto say it was a necessary step toward improving students’ education.