Gov’t Regs Not the Place to Make Women’s Health Decisions
January 7, 2014
Today, democratic legislators Representative Geran Tarr, Representative Beth Kerttula, Representative Harriet Drummond and Senator Berta Gardner spoke out against the governor’s bureaucratic intrusion into Alaska women’s personal health decisions. The Parnell administration recently finalized regulations allowing government bureaucrats to determine which circumstances determine whether a woman’s abortion procedure is medically necessary, a determination previously left to health professionals.
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Rep. Josephson’s Newsletter: Back in the Classroom
December 3, 2013
Dear Friends and Neighbors,
I have spent much of the past few weeks in the classroom, exploring our local elementary schools and middle school; this month I am visiting East High School. Through these visits I have learned about capital project priorities and general budgetary priorities for specific schools, as well as our public education system as a whole. It’s been a nostalgic time for me recalling previous years spent as a high school teacher in the Kuspuk School District in the early ‘90s. The kids in our classrooms are our future, and I believe that it’s up to us to provide them with meaningful, wide-ranging, and rigorous public educations.
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Rep. Kreiss-Tomkins’ Newsletter: The Obamacare Edition
November 15, 2013
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
November 15, 2013
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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Rep. Josephson’s Newsletter: To Insure or Not to Insure: Medicaid Expansion
November 4, 2013
Dear Friends and Neighbors,
You can’t listen to the TV or radio without hearing about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the effect it is having on Americans’ lives. I would like to use this newsletter as a chance to help further inform you about how the ACA will impact your life.
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