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Protecting Alaska's Cook Inlet watershed and the life it sustains since 1995.

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It’s Time for a Fair Share in Alaska

By | February 20, 2019

BACKGROUND:  In January 2019, Governor Dunleavy lopped-off $20 million in education funding in the state’s supplemental budget – an amount approved through bipartisan negotiations in the Alaska House and Senate last year, and money school districts relied on in their budgets through the remainder of the fiscal year.  But the real bombshell came on February […]

Kids or Corporations?

By | January 31, 2019

Alaska is the most profitable oil and gas province in the world. Yet under current forecasts, Alaska is staring down the barrel of a $1.6 billion deficit for the coming fiscal year. Governor Dunleavy came into office promising to cut expenses to balance our budget.  But even if he fired every state employee, he’d still wouldn’t be […]

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