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Legislature should provide lobbyists with key fobs to bypass new Capitol security screening

Jeff Landfield

April 25, 2025

Let me start by saying I totally disagree with the recent decision by Legislative Council to require visitors to the Capitol to go through a metal detector.

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Why the adoption of a one-account Permanent Fund would favor the current generation at the expense of future ones

Brad Keithley

April 25, 2025

As some readers of this column may recall, we have...

Speaker Edgmon told Minority Leader Costello about controversial PFD amendment hours before it was offered

Jeff Landfield

April 23, 2025

On Friday, April 11, the House passed a floor amendment to the budget that lowered the...

The Sunday Minefield – April 20, 2025

Jeff Landfield

April 20, 2025

I hope everyone had a good Easter weekend! It was a short week in Juneau as many people headed home for Easter. Tomorrow is day 90 of the legislative session, which means another year of not finishing by the…

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: The badly unbalanced “balanced budget”

Brad Keithley

April 18, 2025

Fiscal analysts use multiple lenses to evaluate whether a government budget is “balanced.” One is in an accounting sense of whether overall revenues equal overall spending. But that’s not the only lens.

The Sunday Minefield – April 13, 2025

Jeff Landfield

April 13, 2025

It was a loose and eventful week in Juneau. First, the House majority and minority held strange, dueling press conferences. Second, the House Finance Committee tried to introduce a new version of the budget, only to see the whole…

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