NEWS: Alaska Consumers Pay for Governor’s Failure to Accept Medicaid Expansion
October 7, 2014
ANCHORAGE - Nationwide 7.3 million people have signed up for Marketplace plans, paid their premiums, and accessed quality, affordable coverage. States that accepted the Medicaid expansion have seen lower premiums. In 2015 there will be a 25% increase in the total number of issuers selling health insurance plans in the Marketplace in 44 states.
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NEWS: GARA: Parnell, GOP “Education Year”: 3 Years of Anchorage Educator Cuts; Property Tax Hike
September 30, 2014
ANCHORAGE - Today Rep. Les Gara (D-Anchorage) said legislators could have avoided the major staff cuts the Anchorage School District is facing according to their recently released tentative “3 year” forecast. That forecast shows a loss of over 500 teachers and staff over the next three years.
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NEWS: Rep. Kawasaki to Honor New Citizens at Fairbanks Ceremony
September 15, 2014
Representative Scott Kawasaki (D – Fairbanks) will join other dignitaries at the Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitors Center Wednesday, September 17, in a ceremony to welcome new citizens to the United States. The keynote speaker will be Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve superintendent Greg Dudgeon.
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NEWS: Rep. Guttenberg Adds Staff To Fairbanks Office
September 9, 2014
FAIRBANKS - Representative David Guttenberg (D-Interior/Wade Hampton) formally welcomed two new staff members to his Fairbanks office today. Samantha Straus began working for Rep. Guttenberg in August after returning home from a twenty-six month Peace Corps tour in The Gambia, West Africa. Connor MacDonald also joined Rep. Guttenberg’s team in August after interning for U.S. Senator Mark Begich and working at the UAF Women’s Center as a student assistant to Dr. Kayt Sunwood.
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NEWS: Parnell “Chooses Silence” On Zero Worth Oil Provision
August 13, 2014
Governor Parnell has had three weeks to defend a special interest provision in SB 21 that gets Alaskans either a near zero, or even negative long term Production Tax Worth under his controversial oil revenue rollback, SB 21. Rep. Les Gara wrote Governor Parnell on July 24 to ask for his defense of a zero or negative value oil tax provision. Parnell has refused to defend a provision that gets Alaskans little, or possibly a negative worth for fields that went into production under ACES, fields committed to go into production during ACES, and all post-2003 and future oil fields.
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