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A citizen group is circulating petitions this summer to restore campaign finance limits. Called Citizens Against Money in Politics, the group says the initiative will give citizen the same power as large corporations and unions.
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A new PBS series is starting this week and an episode has an Alaska focus. “Breaking Bread” is politics with meals.
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Alaska Democrats unanimously chose President Joe Biden in party elections over the weekend as their candidate for president.
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A group of Fairbanks parents held a press conference April 10 to share concerns about governor Mike Dunleavy’s stance on education funding.
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Most Alaska municipalities held their local elections last month. But candidates in the Denali Borough are just now heading into the final stretch of their races. They’ll go to the polls next Tuesday to elect a new mayor, school board and Assembly.
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Final results from last week’s municipal election have confirmed winning candidates for contested Nenana and Eagle City Council seats.
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An analysis of FNSB Assembly and School Board candidate fundraising.
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Smaller communities around the eastern Interior also held municipal elections this week, and unofficial results show incumbents on track to defeat challengers -- except in Nenana, where sitting school board and city council members failed to retain their seats, and close council race in Eagle.
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Several candidates are running for city councils and school boards around the Eastern Interior in Tuesday’s municipal election. But only a few seats are being contested.
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Three seats are open on the Board of Education; today, candidates for School Board Seat G, Meredith Maple and Maggie Matheson. In-person absentee voting is available through Monday, Oct. 2 at the Shoppers Forum Mall in Fairbanks, and at all three municipal clerks' offices: at the city halls in Fairbanks and North Pole and at the Borough building on Terminal Street.Polling places open for voting on Election Day, Tuesday, Oct. 3.
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North Pole voters will consider two ballot propositions to monitor the city’s water for new contaminants and to replace the oldest part of its water system that’s leaking badly.
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NewsU.S. Rep. Mary Peltola’s husband, Eugene “Buzzy” Peltola Jr., died after the plane he was flying crashed Tuesday in Western Alaska, according to officials.