
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
- 497 Posts
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?

AKLEG Day 60: 'Move on'
Gov. Mike Dunleavy would very much like legislators to simply give up on the education bill he vetoed. That's what he's planning on doing.

AKLEG Day 59: 'I'm not sure.'
It's the deadline for Dunleavy to make a decision on the education bill, and no one has any clue what he's going to do.

AKLEG Day 56: 'I don't want to teach on the Titanic.'
Turns out there may have been a reason the governor was trying to rush everything through with little to no scrutiny.

AKLEG Day 44: 'I'll veto it.'
And as if to show just how serious he really is about the negotiations, the governor is currently absent from Juneau and doesn’t plan to return until next week.

AKLEG Day 43: 'Quit wasting our time.'
It looks like Dunleavy plans to blow up the education deal.
