Ballot initiative to ditch oil industry-friendly tax treatment heats up in Alaska
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- T.J. Presley, campaign manager of "Vote Yes! Repeal the Giveaway," is hoping that 2014 will be the year of the underdog for his grassroots group's oil tax referendum battle against the state's oil giants. This year's election season ...
Uncertainty in Alaska Primary, Maybe Even Confusion
The explanations for these misfires vary. The state is at once one of the nation’s most urban — only New York City has a larger share of its state’s residents than Anchorage — and one of the most rural; two-thirds of Alaska’s communities aren’t ...
Alaska Republicans Set to Choose Mark Begich Challenger
DNR Dan. Afghan Dan. The Other Dan. No matter how voters refer to Senate candidate Dan Sullivan to distinguish him from the Anchorage mayor of the same name, he just hopes they choose him Tuesday in the GOP primary. Sullivan, a first-time candidate ...
Alaskans Decide The Fate Of Oil Production Tax
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Amid a fog of conflicting claims, Alaskans head to the polls Tuesday to decide if the state's old system for taxing oil companies, passed in 2007 after some lawmakers were suspected of bribery, is better than the new system ...
