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• Lawsuit seeks to allow non-Alaska residents to gather signatures for state ballot initiatives

  23-09-2017 02:30 via ktoo.org
  A lawsuit filed in federal court this week seeks to remove the residency requirement for people gathering signatures for state ballot initiatives.
  To get a statewide voter initiative on the ballot, the sponsors must gather thousands of signatures. And for the signatures to be valid, the people gathering them must be Alaska residents.
  Political consultant and former Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate Scott Kohlhaas said that requirement is unconstitutional.
  Kohlhaas is working to get four pote
  
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• Skagway Assembly candidate ordered to pay $220 for incomplete financial disclosures

  23-09-2017 02:12 via ktoo.org
  
  
  For the second time in two years, a Skagway political figure has been ordered to pay a fine for incomplete financial disclosures.
  Assembly hopeful Dan Henry failed to disclose substantial debt on his candidate paperwork.
  He will still be able to run for office in the upcoming election.
  Dan Henry (Photo courtesy The Skagway News)
  Dan Henry’s troubles with Alaska’s campaign finance watchdog started last year, when he was on the assembly.
  His candidate financial disclosures, also called
  
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• Walker pitches 1.5 percent income tax with a limit

  23-09-2017 00:03 via ktoo.org
  Gov. Bill Walker is proposing a new tax to close part of the gap between what the state government spends and what it brings in.
  The tax would be a flat 1.5 percent of wages and self-employment income. But there would be a limit in how much anyone pays.
  No one would pay more than twice what they receive in an Alaska Permanent Fund dividend.
  Sheldon Fisher
  State Commissioner of Revenue Sheldon Fisher said the administration decided against asking for more new revenue bills.
  “We feel like we
  
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