
Matt Acuña Buxton
Matt is a longtime journalist and longtime nerd for Alaska politics and policy. Alaska became his home in 2011, and he's covered the Legislature and more in newspapers, live threads and blogs.
- Anchorage, Alaska
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Day 30: Death Tier
"The only way to guarantee you'll have sufficient funds in retirement is to work until you die or die before your fund dries out."

Day 25: Scattered debris
Like so many debris on scattered on sea ice, it's a little scattered this week.

Day 23: 'It's like you don't give a hoot about our community.'
“Have you seriously considered resigning?”

Day 22: Anchorage HR director Tshibaka is out
An increasingly toxic, hostile, and demoralizing work environment for thee, not for me.

Day 21: The bipartisan Freshman Caucus and worthwhile tension
“I get that you’re new,” he said, on a committee where four of the seven members are new.

Day 17: Senate goes big on school funding/Chief Justice Winfree gives a fitting farewell
"With apologies to Led Zeppelin and ‘Stairway to Heaven,’ and those too young to understand the reference."

Day 15: EPA delivers long-awaited veto of Pebble Mine
What ought to be the conclusion of the decades-long fight over the mine was cause for celebration for just about everyone except for Gov. Mike Dunleavy, the mine’s biggest booster in elected office.

Day 14: Education funding, the budget and carbon offsets
With a big call for increased education funding, it's hard to ignore the governor's budget doesn't exactly have a lot of room for new spending and that new revenue is a long ways off.
Day 10: ‘We're just asking for the crust’
Education advocates ask for what looks like a big increase to K-12 funding, but would just maintain the status quo amid escalating inflation.
