Anchorage Daily News

Measure 4 supporters regroup

The day after voters failed to pass Ballot Measure 4, initiative supporters were regrouping, trying to come up with strategy for fighting the mining industry and the Pebble Mine, a huge copper and gold deposit in Southwest Alaska near the world's most productive wild salmon streams.

Vote shows which rural areas back mining

Voters cool to election funding, gaming measures

Alaska voters on Tuesday were rejecting ballot measures that would have created a Gaming Commission and that would have established a voluntary program of public funding for state election campaigns.

Predator control limitations likely to be shot down

Alaskans were saying no Tuesday to a ballot initiative designed to end the state's predator control program as now conducted.

Measure 4 failing by large margin

"No" votes took a big lead over "Yes" votes in the epic battle over Ballot Measure 4.

"No" votes take early lead in Measure 4 battle

"No" votes took the early lead over "Yes" votes in the epic battle over Measure 4.

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Gambling proposal could allow casinos, lotteries

Alaska voters will be asked Tuesday whether they want to create a Gaming Commission within the state Department of Revenue, resolving a bitter fight between pro- and anti-gambling forces.

AkPIRG disagrees with Stop the Corruption committee claim

Remember the Committee to Stop the Corruption?

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Clean elections proposition getting very little respect

While a long parade of TV commercials have debated the pros and cons of the better-known ballot measures, hardly a word has been heard about campaign reform, even though Measure 3 could have huge ramifications for all future elections.

AkPIRG disagrees with Stop the Corruption committee claim

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Neither side can agree on what Ballot Measure 4 says or will do

The war over Ballot Measure 4 has been reduced to slogans. The two sides don't agree on what the proposed law would do. They don't even agree on the plain meaning of sentences contained in the proposed law.

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Predator control still stirs heated debate

Alaska voters are being asked to decide the future of the state's predator control program, in which aircraft are used to track and kill wolves and bears.

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Mining ballot measure tough to sort out

The friends and foes of Ballot Measure 4, the proposed state law seeking tougher pollution standards for large, new mines, can't seem to find much to agree on.

State biologist accepts Pebble job

Blog: The Pebble Blog

Court OKs initiative for ballot

The Alaska Supreme Court issued a order Thursday allowing a "Clean Water" initiative to go on the statewide ballot in August.

Alaska Supreme Court will rule on mining ballot issue

The Alaska Supreme Court is taking a hard look at one of the touchiest debates in Alaska today: mining and clean water.

Lawsuit seeks ballots for Yup'ik speakers

The state of Alaska was in federal court in Anchorage on Wednesday, battling demands that it provide ballots and other election materials in Yup'ik as well as English to residents of the Bethel area.

Alaska high court dismisses Pebble initiative

The state Supreme Court signed an order Monday that dismisses the more controversial of two embattled "clean water" ballot initiatives aimed at blocking development of the Pebble copper and gold prospect in Southwest Alaska.

Blog: The Pebble Blog