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Redistricting raises questions for lawmakers

Alaska lawmakers this week will address ethics questions raised by redistricting as they seek clarification over whether they can use state resources to send mailings, such as newsletters, to residents outside their elected districts.

Fights over school funding, oil taxes loom in Legislature

The Legislature passed the one-third mark for its 2012 session, which started Jan. 17, and it appears a bruising fight may be shaping up over increased funding for schools as well as for oil and gas tax legislation, which was always considered to be the major issue going into the session.

Health care costs are biting Alaskans, businesses harder

Rising medical costs are biting hard. Health care spending in Alaska is now running at $7.5 billion a year, and if trends continue, it will double by 2020.

Essential Air Service, grants for Alaska preserved in FAA bill

Essential Air Service, grants for Alaska preserved in FAA bill

After five years and nearly two dozen short-term extensions of the Federal Aviation Administration budget, the state that relies on air transportation more than any other can breathe a little easier.

Supreme Court reinstates major fraud judgment against Ellsworth

The Alaska Supreme Court has reversed a lower court ruling and reinstated what may be the largest civil fraud judgment in state history.

Archive »National Politics

FACT CHECK: Artful swerves on the auto bailout

Michigan has become squirm central for Republican presidential candidates who are trying to explain their opposition to the auto bailout before the big primary in the home of automakers. Their tale is terribly tangled, and President Barack Obama isn't telling it straight either.

Deal trims maximum jobless benefits to 73 weeks

Deal trims maximum jobless benefits to 73 weeks

Unemployed workers would no longer be able to claim 99 weeks of benefit checks by this summer under a deal being worked out in Congress.

Transportation boosted to top of political agenda

WASHINGTON (AP) — After years of procrastination, the White House and Congress have suddenly boosted a long-term plan to improve the nation’s roads, bridges and transit systems to the top of the political agenda.

House speaker says payroll tax bill won't add jobs

A compromise bill extending a payroll tax cut and jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed should be enacted, but it's not going to help the economy very much, House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday.

Lawmakers move to cusp of deal on payroll tax cut

Congressional leaders are gauging lawmakers' reactions to a tentative deal extending a 2 percentage-point payroll tax cut and extra jobless benefits through 2012, a pact bargainers reached after House Republicans conceded that the tax cut would not have to be paid for with spending cuts.

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