Monthly Archives: March 2010

By Libby Casey

Members of the environmental group Greenpeace unfurled a giant banner in a U-S Senate Building today criticizing Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski.

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By Libby Casey

A third of Alaska’s legislators are in Washington D-C right now for meetings about energy issues.  They’re attending the annual conference of the Energy Council, a group made up of a dozen oil and gas producing states, 6 Canadian provinces, and Venezuela.  Continue reading →

By Libby Casey

Democratic Senator Mark Begich says he supports next week’s listening sessions in southeast communities to get input on the Sealaska lands bill, while Congressman Don Young says it’s time to move forward.  Continue reading →

By Libby Casey

Local outcry against the land swap has been intensifying in recent weeks and now includes southeast residents venturing to the nation’s capital to weigh in.  Continue reading →

By Libby Casey

The University of Alaska will host a new federal regional center for climate change research. The Anchorage-based Climate Science Center is the first of eight to be set up throughout the country.    Continue reading →

By Libby Casey

President Obama’s pick to be the federal coordinator of Alaska gasline projects, Larry Persily,  is a step closer to getting on the job.     Continue reading →

By Libby Casey

Federal transportation workers in Alaska may get back to work as soon as today .  Last night  the Senate reached a deal to move forward on a 10 billion dollar aid bill that includes transportation dollars and extends unemployment benefits.  Continue reading →

By Libby Casey

The U-S Senate has reached a deal that will allow it to move forward and soon reinstate unemployment benefits.  Since Thursday, Republican Kentucky Senator Jim Bunning had single-handedly blocked the short-term extension of unemployment benefits and other popular measures.  But this evening he accepted a deal to allow the $10-billion aid bill to advance.   Continue reading →

By Dave Donaldson

House and Senate committees today opened debate on the state’s response to a U-S Supreme Court decision opening political campaigns to corporations and labor unions — as an extension of the Constitutional right of free speech.  Continue reading →

By Libby Casey

Senator Lisa Murkowski and her Republican colleagues are in a political tight spot because of a member of their party.  Kentucky Senator Jim Bunning is single-handedly blocking the short-term extension of unemployment benefits and other popular measures.    Continue reading →