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Mayor and Assembly Chair Urge Speedup of Land Use Review
Image via WikipediaTitle 21 is the legislation that governs land use in the Municipality of Anchorage. If you are not quite sure what this is all about, there is excellent background information presented in language you can understand at the Anchorage Citizens Coalition web site. Title 21 has been under review for 6 [...]
The ACLU and Public Policy
Image via Wikipedia The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Alaska and the ACLU of Alaska Foundation are non-partisan organizations dedicated to advancing the cause of civil liberties in Alaska. The former fulfills its mission through legislative advocacy, coalition building, and grassroots advocacy. The latter pursues the same mission through [...]
Paid Sick Days Legislation: Time For Alaska Too?
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Paid Sick Days Approved by California Assembly
Last Thursday, the California Assembly approved a bill guaranteeing all workers in the state a minimum number of paid sick days each year, becoming the second legislative chamber in the country to do so following approval in the Connecticut Senate. Washington, D.C. and San Francisco have [...]
Planning Land Use In Anchorage
This meeting agenda indicates the first substantive discussion in several years of how Title 21 changes the land use rules for neighborhoods and businesses. Please attend.
Title 21 Rewrite: Building a Better Community
Do you…think about adding a mother-in-law unit to your home or convert it to a duplex? Wonder how big a business sign [...]
Tracking Money in State Politics: Who Do You Want to Investigate?
With a name like National Institute on Money in State Politics, you can imagine the possibilities, and they are realized on this site.
The National Institute on Money in State Politics is the only nonpartisan, nonprofit organization revealing the influence of campaign money on state-level elections and public policy in all 50 states. Our comprehensive [...]
One Penny of Every New Dollar For Children
Over the past five years only one penny of every new, real non-defense dollar spent by the federal government goes to children, a new publication by First Focus, a bipartisan children’s advocacy organization revealed today.
The book, entitled Children’s Budget 2008, was made possible with support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. It is an analysis [...]
One of every 39 Alaskan Homes to be Foreclosed
According to a recent article in the Anchorage Daily News, “While Alaskans aren’t seeing the number of failed loans as some places in the Lower 48, plenty of people in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough are feeling the pain of bad home-buying decisions. Real estate agents in the Mat-Su area last year said they started seeing a [...]
Second Chance Act Now Law
The following press release was circulated April 10th, 2008, by UAA’s Justice Center and by the Alaska Coalition for Prisoner Re-Entry:
WASHINGTON, April 9 (UPI) — U.S. President George W. Bush Wednesday signed the Second Chance Act, saying the legislation will help prisoners “reclaim their lives.” The act authorizes the administration’s Prison Re-entry Program, which expands [...]