
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
- 503 Posts
For the moderates in Alaska's races, good policy trumps party
"Closed political primaries made it possible to elect a ham sandwich."

Dunleavy's vetoes highlight the right's weird agenda
It may all be a coincidence or it may be pretty weird.

RCV repeal effort highlights 'the danger in the discretion'
The state, opponents argue, bent over backward to help the initiative to repeal ranked-choice voting and open primaries. Would they do the same for a progressive cause?

Republicans are having a weird time with open primaries and ranked-choice voting
Am I so out of touch? No, it's the voters who must be wrong.

Unopened polling places are unfortunately 'nothing new' for rural Alaska
No news would be good news.

580 signatures
It’ll be difficult to prove there’s fire beneath all this smoke, but there sure is a lot of smoke.

Homeschool ruling reversed by technicality
You are technically correct, the best kind of correct.

'We have a housing shortage, so what?'
The question, to me, is what does preserving the city’s quality of life even mean?
