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1 month ago | 
sitkasentinel.com | Jeremy Bynum
Legislators Vote No To Agriculture Department Details Category: News Created on Thursday, 20 March 2025 15:18 Hits: 235 By JAMES BROOKS Alaska Beacon
Alaska will remain one of two states without a cabinet-level Department of Agriculture, at least for the time being.
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1 month ago | 
alaskapublic.org | Jeremy Bynum
The Alaska House of Representatives is asking Congress to fix a problem with a program that pays money to rural school districts affected by the decline of the timber industry. On Monday, the House voted 35-4 to pass a resolution urging Congress to reinstate the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000. Congress failed to renew the act earlier this year, costing rural Alaska districts more than $12 million in funding. Rep.
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1 month ago | 
newsminer.com | Jeremy Bynum |Corinne Smith
The Alaska House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday that is aimed at adding $275 million to fund public schools starting this summer. The House spent long floor sessions across three days this week, proposing amendments to, debating and voting on House Bill 69. The House passed the bill by a vote of 24 to 16. It would add $1,000 per student to the formula used to set state funding for K-12 schools.
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1 month ago | 
sitkasentinel.com | Jeremy Bynum
Gunalchéesh Háw’aa
Thanks to the generosity and expertise of the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska broadband department, Tidal Network; Christopher Cropley, director of Tidal Network; and Luke Johnson, Tidal Network technician, SitkaSentinel.com is again being updated.
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2 months ago | 
alaskabeacon.com | James Brooks |Jeremy Bynum
A pro-Trump Republican who represents the state House district that includes Denali is now backing a resolution asking Trump to keep the peak’s name intact. Rep.
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Jan 27, 2025 | 
alaskabeacon.com | James Brooks |Jeremy Bynum
One week after President Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming North America’s tallest mountain, the Alaska House of Representatives formally asked him to reverse himself. With a bipartisan 28-10 vote on Monday, the House approved House Joint Resolution 4, which requests that Trump and the federal government continue labeling the mountain as Denali. Trump’s order, slated to take effect within 30 days, would label the mountain as “Mount McKinley,” its official name between 1896 and 2015.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
alaskabeacon.com | James Brooks |Jeremy Bynum
The Alaska House of Representatives will have two fewer Republicans, according to preliminary election results published by the Alaska Division of Elections after polls closed on Election Day. As of 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, the House was poised to stand at 20 Republicans, 14 Democrats and six independents, increasing the odds that the incoming House will be controlled by a predominantly Democratic coalition instead of the current predominantly Republican majority.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
ketchikandailynews.com | Sam Stockbridge |Jeremy Bynum |Beyond Bynum
With less than a week until the general election, Jeremy Bynum has a commanding fundraising lead over his competitors in the race for Ketchikan's seat in the Alaska House of Representatives, with more money raised from all cash donations than his opponents combined, according to the latest state campaign finance reports submitted on Tuesday.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
mustreadalaska.com | Suzanne Downing |Jeremy Bynum |Daniel Ortiz
The Alaska Republican Party gathered for its quarterly meeting in Fairbanks and made numerous endorsements this week. We have reported already that Nick Begich was endorsed for Congress, Jared Goecker was endorsed for the Eagle River state Senate seat, and Rep. Jamie Allard was endorsed for House District 23. In addition, here are some of the other candidates and incumbents who received endorsements:Rep.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
ketchikandailynews.com | Jeremy Bynum |in Saxman
In Tuesday’s state primary race for southern Southeast Alaska’s seat in the state House of Representatives, Republican candidate Jeremy Bynum took a strong plurality of the vote, falling just one vote shy of exactly half of the ballots tallied as of Thursday afternoon. The two nonpartisan candidates vying for that same seat finished much closer to each other, with Grant EchoHawk taking a small lead over Agnes Moran.
