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
- 482 Posts
AKLEG Day 92: 'Direct benefit'
Republicans have bristled at attempts to increase oversight on public home school allotment spending. Now we know why.
AKLEG Day 85: ‘What’s not in the budget?’
The central question moving forward is just how much room there really is in the budget.
AKLEG Day 84: 'The absence of a compelling reason.'
A long litany of unanswered questions hasn’t stopped Gov. Mike Dunleavy and his Republicans from pushing to enact right-wing changes to education policy in Alaska, and that didn’t change on Monday.
AKLEG Day 67: 'Establish and maintain'
Former Gov. Bill Walker broke the norms of the PFD law. Now, Dunleavy is effectively doing the same with the BSA.
AKLEG Day 65: 'Significant consequences'
As “adults play their political games” in Juneau, districts face tremendous, community-dividing uncertainty as they turn to cuts.
AKLEG Day 63: 39-20
While Republicans claimed there's still time to fund schools, the future is far from certain.
AKLEG Day 63: 'I will be voting to override'
Since when does the governor get to tell the Legislature how to do things?