U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, took another step in her battle against the Environmental Protection Agency, introducing language in a spending bill that would transfer some of the agency’s air-permitting authority to the Interior Department in hopes of accelerating Alaska’s offshore oil and gas development.
Read the full story: http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/murkowski-aims-transfer-epas-air-permitting-clout
“The House Ethics Committee has cleared Rep. Don Young, Alaska Republican, of any wrongdoing related to donations to his legal expense fund, but the panel also changed the rules to make them clearer.
Mr. Young was accused of accepting 12 contributions of $5,000 to his legal expense fund from the same donor.”
“In other words, this lawmaker violated House rules in his effort to defend himself in a bribery case involving Alaska’s ‘Bridge to Nowhere’ fiasco,” said political strategist Mike Baker.
The Montana Supreme Court has just upheld the state’s ban on corporate spending in state elections, a ruling that stands in stark opposition to Citizens United and overturns a lower court’s ruling that had deemed Montana’s century-old ban on election spending unconstitutional.
The immensity of this moment – and the potential reverberations this ruling could have – cannot be overstated, for Montana’s highest court has provided a blueprint for how other states can contravene the Citizens United decision in state and local elections.
Read the full article at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/12/31/1050271/-MONTANA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The campaign was colored by the indictment of Ahmaogak’s wife, Maggie, for embezzling some $475,000 from the Alaska Eskimo Commission just weeks before the election…Brower’s husband, Eugene, plead guilty to tax evasion when he was borough mayor in the 1980s.
Read the full article by Carey Restino | The Arctic Sounder at
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/big-margins-point-lay-nuiqsut-gave-brower-lead-north-slope-election
We will be hosting another protest, blowing up our giant 26 foot tall inflatable rat for the second time, in front of the Anchorage Daily News this Friday October 21st 1:00 to 3:00 PM for selling out their readers in favor of to corporate interests.