
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 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.
