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In a 39-20 split, lawmakers were one vote short of overriding Dunleavy’s veto of a $200 million education package.
It would take 40 out of 60 lawmaker to override Dunleavy’s veto.
The Anchorage Superior Court will rule by June on whether opponents of ranked choice voting must disclose the source of campaign contributions funneled through a Washington-based church.
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoed a $200 million education funding package that overwhelmingly passed both the House and Senate.
The Legislature is planning to hold a veto override session early next week. It’s unclear if legislators have the votes to override the veto.
Alaska’s U.S. senators signaled support for legislative action to address what they said were ties between TikTok and Chinese leadership.
Most of the rejected orders would have eliminated volunteer boards and transferred their roles to state agencies.
Time to pass a new education bill is fast running out. If Dunleavy fulfills his veto threat of SB 140, the Legislature could be heading to an override vote.
It would take a majority of lawmakers in a joint session to overturn any of the orders, many of which seek to eliminate public oversight boards.
If the governor’s order is allowed to go into effect, councils that for decades have overseen Wood-Tikchik State Park and the Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve would be eliminated.
Preliminary results showed former President Donald Trump received 87% of votes counted,
Alaska’s GOP presidential preference poll will be held on Super Tuesday with 18 polling locations across the state.
The Alaska Aerospace Corp. board selected a retired National Guard colonel as its leader after Gov. Dunleavy refused to approve its previous choice for president and CEO.
Under state law, each initiative petition was required to collect 26,705 qualified signatures from residents in at least 30 of the 40 House districts.
Dunleavy said that to earn his support for increasing the Base Student Allocation, he wanted lawmakers to advance provisions to pay teacher bonuses and pave the way for more charter schools.