Matt Buxton

If it stinks everywhere you go, maybe it’s you.

In a nuanced ruling, Judge McKenna rules Eastman’s membership in the Oath Keepers likely meets the Alaska Constitution’s disloyalty clause test but will allow the election to go forward with the caveat that Eastman may be ultimately barred from holding office.

The investigation, however, found they didn’t break the law or that Gov. Dunleavy was directly calling the shots on the firing of the exec.

The Legislature won’t be helping Eastman out with the lawsuit seeking to bar him from holding elected office.

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Just days after signing a bill that the courts said would provide certainty for the state’s scholarship program, the Dunleavy administration is asking the fund be left in limbo.

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At an emergency hearing, attorneys for both groups argued the requests for information went too far but insisted they were not intentionally stonewalling the investigation.

As for the legislative races, there’s been a fair bit of movement with it generally being good news for Democrats, independents and moderate Republicans.

If successful, the lawsuit could prevent him from being seated, resulting in a second-place finisher being seated instead.

Armstrong holds a 10-point lead over Republican Liz Vazquez, a difference of 737 votes, in the race for House District 16. Additional votes are set to be counted today.

Now, Murkowski will head into Wednesday’s ranked-choice voting tabulation with a lead and the expectation that she’ll receive a large portion of the 20% of the vote that went to Democrat Pat Chesbro.

What had largely been a foregone conclusion among politicos going into election day—that Republicans would win control of the House after three cycles of bipartisan majorities—no longer looks so certain.

The special election for the U.S. House taught us to expect a little bit of everything.

The Senate organizes around a whopping 17-member majority with all nine Democrats and eight of the 11 Republicans.

Cacy finished 14 votes behind Republican Sen. Roger Holland in the three-way race and was eliminated in the first round of the ranked-choice voting tabulation.

Seven votes were the difference between a 21-member bipartisan coalition in the House and the 20-20 split where it currently stands, but a recount could...

Judge Walker disagreed with the challengers’ assertions, ruling Armstrong became a resident the moment she decided to make Alaska her home.

In many cases, things turned out to be not as bad as expected.