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Rep. Don Young says the plan is neither accessible nor affordable. Sen. Mark Begich says the bill has not found a lot of favor from the Senate; Sen. Lisa Murkowski opposes any bill with a public option.
Don Young was on top of the world after winning the Half Moon Bay World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in early October. He earned nearly $10,000 in prize money, stayed at the Ritz-Carlton for free, and was feted as the person of honor (along with his giant pumpkin) in a big parade down Main Street.
Alaska Rep. Don Young, a Republican, released a statement after the vote calling it a "vote to rescind American freedom."
When the noted litigator Brendan Sullivan represented former Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska in his public corruption trial last year, Mr. Sullivan told the jury that when prosecutors “look at life through a dirty glass, then the whole world looks dirty.”
Greenpeace is demanding that Newsweek disclose how much money it has made selling the oil industry's biggest lobbying group a...
Sen. Lisa Murkowski says she thinks the House bill on healthcare reform was rushed and not given enough debate. Sen. Begich is also concerned about cost consequences.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Republicans thinking about a run at the U.S. presidency in 2012 might find the going tough as the field is filling up with established hopefuls, analysts say.
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski has scheduled a town hall meeting on health care reform from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at Mirror Lake Middle School in the Chugiak area.
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The Environmental Protection Agency sent the White House its finding on greenhouse-gas pollution, seven months after the agency said the emissions from power plants and factories put the public at risk.
The day the Gallup Organization confirmed Mike Huckabee’s status as the pollsters’ front-runner for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, the former Arkansas governor was slouched in the back of his tour bus, somewhere between Harrisburg and Allentown, Pa., talking about the frustrations of not being taken seriously.
WEST ALLIS, Wis. - Less than two weeks before the release of her memoir "Going Rogue," former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was on message during a Friday night speech to anti-abortion activists at State Fair Park.
Former Gov. Sarah Palin took to the social networking site earlier this year, tweeting about state government, national politics and everything in between.
State legislators are considering spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in public money to support an arts and cultural center in New York City that its founder describes as an embassy devoted to increasing awareness of Alaska.
Rep. Don Young doesn't attend many big public events in Washington, so his presence was notable Thursday afternoon at a Republican rally at that drew thousands of people who oppose the health care legislation scheduled for a vote this weekend in the House of Representatives.
Minnesota Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty, after making a series of smart strategic moves over the past few months in advance of an expected run for president in 2012, has struggled on the national stage in the past few weeks.
Former borough Mayor Juanita Helms, who died Saturday, was the sort of down-to-earth, straightforward person we often think of as a “real Alaskan.” Helms wasn’t a born politician, but she wanted t...
