Rep. Tuck’s Community Connection: Giving Thanks Through Helping Others
Happy Thanksgiving!
This is a great time for home cooks (and enthusiastic eaters). But it’s also a time to reflect on, and give thanks for, our blessings.
One hundred and fifty years before America was founded, European Christians set sail to search for religious freedom. Landing at Plymouth Rock they suffered death, disease, starvation and terrible accidents. Fewer than half survived their first winter.
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NEWS: Rep. Kawasaki Applauds New Accountability in Legislative Office Accounts
Today, Representative Scott Kawasaki (D-Fairbanks) released the following statement applauding the Legislative Council decision to make legislative office accounts more accountable to the public. Kawasaki introduced legislation (HB97) in the last legislative session to address the lack of accountability and transparency in the office accounts policy implemented in January of this year.
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NEWS: Gara, Costello, Receive Award for Housing Legislation
Alaska Chapter of the American Planning Association recognizes HB50 for Best Practices
Today, the Alaska Chapter of the American Planning Association honored Representative Les Gara and the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation with its Best Practices Award for their work on legislation to promote vibrant neighborhoods and desirable businesses in low and middle income residential developments.
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Rep. Kreiss-Tomkins’ Newsletter: The Obamacare Edition
Sportsmanship and Statesmanship
I love great sports rivalries. I love that the intensity of competition between great rivals — Red Sox and Yankees; Auburn and Alabama; Duke and North Carolina — is couched by an even greater respect each holds for the other. Ferocious competitors, Michael Jordan and Larry Bird dueled each other in some of the most epic playoff games in NBA history, but when the series was over, Bird and Jordan genuinely respected each other and even teamed up to shoot good-natured McDonalds commercials in the off-season.
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NEWS: It’s “Unconscionable”: Democratic Legislators Decry Governor’s Decision to Reject Medicaid Expansion
Today, Representative Andy Josephson and Representative Geran Tarr offered the following statements in response to the governor’s decision not to accept the federal government’s offer to expand Medicaid coverage to all Alaskans making less than 138% of the federal poverty level and instead to study the issue for another year.
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