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Alaska Rep. Nick Begich again votes to strip funding from public broadcasters
The U.S. House of Representatives voted overnight Thursday to strip more than $1.1 billion in previously budgeted money from ...
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Expiration date looms for legal deal defining trans-Alaska pipeline tax value
The value of the system matters because it helps determine the amount of property taxes the pipeline's owners must pay to the ...
Anchorage Daily News6hOpinion
Opinion: You can’t hold funding for Alaska public education hostage and expect it to improve
In the fall of 2019, Tom Begich and I sat in the Atwood Building lobby, waiting to meet with Gov. Mike Dunleavy. That meeting ...
Sullivan ‘side-deal’ not enough to save rural Alaska public broadcasting, opponents of Trump proposal to funding cut say
Sen. Dan Sullivan announced Tuesday night that he worked with the Trump administration to preserve funding for rural Alaska ...
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Congress has defunded public broadcasting. Murkowski explores what’s next for Alaska stations.
The fate of Alaska’s smaller public radio stations is in doubt after Congress passed a bill to defund the Corporation for ...
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Alaska public media stations warn of dangers as US Senate prepares to vote on funding clawback
The Senate has until Friday to vote on a measure that could eliminate more than $15 million in annual funding for Alaska’s 27 ...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner2dOpinion
Rural Alaska needs public media now more than ever
This week, the U.S. Senate is set to vote on a budget rescissions package that would eliminate more than $1.1 billion in ...
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Alaska Board of Game approves revived bear-culling program in caribou grounds
The controversial program, aimed at boosting the population of a struggling caribou herd in Western Alaska, had been halted ...