Roughly 100 people lined a street near API to argue that investment from the state, not privatization, is the more effective way to address the hospital’s many problems.
Union, education, conservation and other groups are planning to protest the meetings next week, saying the public should be heard.
The anonymous commercials, at a cost of about $9,000, are airing in Kenai, Wasilla and Fairbanks ahead of public meetings.
Work on a new petroleum/concrete terminal is expected to begin in 2020.
In a letter to the Alaska Judicial Council, the governor said its list of nominees was inadequate.
Gravel, now living in California, says he wants to reshape the Democratic Party by pushing it further to the left.
Hundreds of people testified at recent hearings on the ferry system, which serves communities stretching from Bellingham, Washington, to Southeast Alaska to the Aleutian Islands.
A former Ketchikan school board president has withdrawn his nomination for a state judicial conduct commission.
It could receive a vote of the full Senate as soon as Wednesday.
Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration is pursuing a $225 million reduction in state Medicaid spending.
The sponsorship was not disclosed when the governor said he would hold public meetings in Anchorage, Nome, the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Kenai and Fairbanks next week.
The cuts were rejected anyway.
The governor says Alaska is at a ‘pivotal point.’
The forecast for oil revenue has been lowered again.
The weekend hearings would not overlap with normal business.
A proposal by Gov. Dunleavy would strip the North Slope Borough of its power to collect nearly $400 million in property taxes from oil companies each year.
According to state estimates, the fund will be exhausted by April 1 unless lawmakers act quickly.
No dates or locations for the unprecedented hearings have been announced. A schedule is expected in the coming days.
State senators cited an inability to talk privately with constituents due to conflict-of-interest legislation passed last year.
Legislative and executive branch lawyers disagree about whether the governor’s proposal is legal.
