Worst October jobs numbers in over 20 years and inflation up www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Trump is not appealing the Court decisions and is going to restart SNAP benefits, probably by Wednesday

BREAKING NEWS: Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously that President Donald Trump’s administration must continue to fund SNAP, the nation’s biggest food aid program, using contingency funds during the government shutdown.

I don’t know Mr. Cox and I look forward to learning more in his confirmation hearings. According to the Alaska Bar Association he just became an attorney in AK 3 months ago & according to Division of Elections he was not registered to vote in Alaska as of May 2025 alaskabeacon.com/2025/08/28/a...

On the eve of the Trump/Putin summit, Gov. Dunleavy just posted this. Governor, are you ok? Has your account been hacked?

Bad news as inflation increases highest amount in three years apnews.com/article/prod...

President Trump said during his presidential campaign, “Starting on Day 1, we will end inflation and make America affordable again.” Do you think things are more affordable or is this just fake news? apnews.com/article/poll...

Massive 8.7 earthquake off Russia abcnews.go.com/amp/US/tsuna...

“The Governor has asked house minority members to not show up for the first five days of the special session to prevent his vetoes to be overturned in the special session,” spokesperson for Dunleavy, Jeff Turner, said in a statement www.alaskasnewssource.com/2025/07/02/u...

Teacher housing has been a big problem in rural Alaska. In response the Legislature passed HB 174 which allows rural school districts to seek funding for teacher housing through the regional educational attendance area and small municipal school district school fund. Gov Dunleavy vetoed this bill

This year the Legislature passed SB 39, a bill to ban predatory lending schemes that saw some payday lenders charge interest rates of over 500%. It was supported by Food Bank of Alaska, Alaska Children’s Trust, AARP and YWCA Alaska. Gov. Dunleavy just vetoed it.

In another hit to Anchorage education funding, Anchorage School District just received word that due to President Trump's cancellation of a grant previously approved, the ASD will be losing $11,712,538 million in funding that was to be used for computers & technology skill training for students

After President Biden blocked this deal, and President Trump opposed it on the campaign trail, Pres. Trump has now reversed course and allowed US Steel, once America’s biggest company, to go under 100% foreign ownership www.cnn.com/2025/06/18/b...

More Dunleavy veto shenanigans

Mysteriously, tax settlements have dropped by hundreds of millions of dollars under Dunleavy. Several months ago a former Dunleavy Deputy Commissioner wrote that he was told “point blank” he was “expected to violate statute to enrich oil companies on public money they weren't legally entitled to.”

Since the “oil situation has deteriorated” maybe it’s time to cut back on the $655 million in oil tax credits, the $500 million in oil tax subsidies for the Willow project (for which AK gets zero royalties) and the $120 million to a single Texas oil billionaire due to a loophole

Wow! The students and faculty at West High just made the best possible argument in support of the arts in our schools with their amazing, sold out performance of Hadestown at the Performing Arts Center last night. Well done!

Great coverage of the SCorp loophole that costs Alaska $120 million every year

Many are asking what the impacts are of the Executive Order to dismantle the Department of Education. It’s not entirely clear, but the impacts would greatly impact special education programs, low and moderate income families and those federal student loans and grants for college and career training

77% of Alaskans support closing S-Corp loophole that costs Alaska over $100 million per year

Recent polling on issues in Alaska www.dataforprogress.org/memos/2025/3...

🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 to @wielechowski.bsky.social's mentee for their excellent and thorough presentation as to why cell phones should not be allowed in schools. The kids are definitely all right. #akleg (Personally, I am not a huge fan of cell phone bans, but this young person almost has me convinced)

Unless Congress acts, Medicare members will lose many of their telehealth benefits next month www.msn.com/en-us/news/t...

Gov. Dunleavy wants fish farming in Alaska. What do you think?

Impact of Trump tariffs stocks.apple.com/AAEmcDmqPRtK...

Where would they deport them to? “In the Trump administration’s arguments defending his order to suspend birthright citizenship, the Justice Department called into question the citizenship of Native Americans born in the United States under the 14th Amendment” www.yahoo.com/news/excludi...

Over $130 million in grants allocated to clean energy projects in rural Alaska are now frozen, following one of President Donald Trump’s executive orders.

Long overdue. Time to get these toxins out of our food www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/fd...

Former AK State Senate Minority Leader Hollis French moved to AK when he was 20 to work in the oil industry. As a Senator he led the rewrite of oil taxes & famously subpoenaed Todd Palin in Troopergate. He ran for governor in 2010 & 2014. Listen to the interview: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

This explains the natural gas crisis in Cook Inlet clearly and concisely. A Texas billionaire controls 90% of the gas in Cook Inlet, is legally obligated to produce that gas, yet refuses to do so while the State turns a blind eye adn-ak.newsmemory.com?publink=16cf...

Rest in peace, Mr. President www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

To clear up any confusion: Elimination of WEP & GPO provisions of Social Security are great news for thousands of Alaskans. But doesn’t change fact Alaska still has worst retirement system in America. AK teachers, police and firefighters still get no pension & no Social Security

Breaking News: After 40 years, Congress tonight repealed the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset provisions of the Social Security Act that caused thousands of public employees to have their Social Security cut by thousands of dollars

Today I had the great honor to present a legislative citation to East Anchorage constituent Mary Pignalberi for her five decades of work and volunteerism for Alaska’s tourism industry

Great news! The US Senate is going to vote on eliminating the Windfall Elimination Provision of Social Security - which causes thousands of Alaskans to lost thousands of dollars in Social Security benefits www.yahoo.com/news/schumer...

Meet me for coffee tomorrow morning (Wednesday) to talk about how we can move East Anchorage and Alaska forward

Have a Happy Thanksgiving! Hoping your Thanksgiving is filled with blessings and joy!

Recognizing the tenth anniversary of the UAA sports arena. The Alaska Airlines Arena has become a signature asset for the University of Alaska, hosting not only sports events, but graduations, concerts and other events.

New election results out. No on 2 (RCV) is now up by 192 votes

Around 9,000 votes left to count in Alaska - most in areas that opposed Ballot Measure 2. Ranked choice voting and open primary repeal ballot initiative up by 900 votes. Likely that Ballot Measure 2 will fall just short

Advocating for East Anchorage schools at Bartlett High with Rep. Donna Mears and Ted Eischeid

At Bartlett High where the Anchorage School District is discussing the proposal to close down three East Anchorage schools and four other schools

There are still over 12,000 ballots to count in Alaska, most of them from districts that voted No on ballot measure 2, which is now up by 1,700 votes. That lead will very likely shrink a lot

How will Trump's tariffs impact the cost of things? www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

The state computer system has been down for weeks and state employees can’t retire and get benefits. Now the system is down and state employees can’t re-enroll for health care benefits

Doug Burgum picked for Secretary of the Department of the Interior, a position many thought would go to Gov. Dunleavy

There are still 30,000-35,000 ballots to be counted in Alaska