Alaska Public Media’s lruskin interviews AlaskaBeacon reporter AK_OK to get a progress report from the the Alaska Capitol.
It’s actually pretty quiet in the Capitol this week. There’s a fair number of legislators who are headed out to Washington, D.C. this week in order to lobby support for the Willow oil project. It feels like we’re in the middle of the session. Legislators have had about 45 days now to get to know each other to get up to speed. Because remember: there’s a lot of new faces. More than a third of the legislators are new this year.Let’s discuss what the governor wants. Gov.
In the Capitol, we’ve heard a lot of presentations from school district officials, school superintendents, ordinary parents and teachers who have said that local schools are really suffering right now from the effects of inflation. School supplies, fuel and electricity, basic costs have gone up enormously for school districts.
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