
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
- 509 Posts
AKLEG Day 114: 'Cover-yourself behavior'
While some trustees are eager to investigate embarrassing leaks, others are more focused on the conditions that caused them.

AKLEG Day 113: 'Baubles and trinkets'
A look at a change to the carbon storage bill to close a "loophole" that has long frustrated critics of the state's oil and gas industry.

AKLEG Day 112: 'Mischaracterizes and misreads'
The problem with the legislative fixes is that they restore guardrails to the home-school program, firmly shutting the lid on the cookie jar that Dunleavy and his allies had their hand in.

AKLEG Day 106: 'Deep reservations'
Legislators give Board of Education member Bob Griffin a major thumbs down.

AKLEG Day 105: 'This difficult interaction'
Shocking—shocking!—well-not-that-shocking.

AKLEG Day 101: "Sense of the House"
The lawsuit and its fallout have exposed Alaska’s two-tiered public education system, which many Republicans seem deadset on maintaining.

AKLEG Day 94: Education dividend
In the wake of the home school ruling, Dunleavy sees an opportunity to break down the constitutional barrier that has stopped him from implementing school vouchers.

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.
