...into a gun show, flea market or even log on to the Internet and buy weapons from unlicensed sellers, no questions asked. Congress should require a simple criminal background check on gun sales. The Brady Law has stopped over 2 million felons and domestic...
...Conference will be held June 14-18 at Lands End Resort in Homer. The keynote speaker this year is Guggenheim and Library of Congress Witter Bynner Fellow, Naomi Shihab Nye. There is a registration discount through May 4. For more information and to register...
...North Pacific Fishery Management Council reduce the quantity of king salmon bycatch in trawl fisheries and a resolution urging Congress to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas exploration, development, and production. He also co-sponsored...
...Those groups don't have to disclose their donors because they're governed by tax law.Open-government groups have pushed Congress, to no avail, for a law that would require politically active groups to disclose their finances.Associated Press writer...
...Lake. The Kodiak Brown Bear Center is owned by Koniag Inc. one of 13 Alaska Native Regional Corporations established by Congress under the terms of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA). Koniag owns approximately 112000 acres along Karluk...
...Lake. The Kodiak Brown Bear Center is owned by Koniag Inc. one of 13 Alaska Native Regional Corporations established by Congress under the terms of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA). Koniag owns approximately 112000 acres along Karluk...
...controlled the White House and both houses of Congress for the first time in 45 years, and...be alive until the current two-year Congress expires at the end of 2002. But Murkowski...resistance as time goes on. ''In most Congresses, the heavy lifting gets done in the...
...Obama probably will be forced to ask Congress for an increase in borrowing authority...Review Act, the 1997 Clinton-Republican Congress deficit reduction package, the Budget...two years ago. But many Democrats in Congress oppose it and the administration has...
...words "fiscal conservative" get a lot of lip service, but in Congress, in Juneau and in the Mat-Su Borough, any notion of true...needed. Now, looking ahead at the fiscal gamesmanship in Congress, it's hardly a sound business plan to continue to rely on...
...of possibly unprecedented "dysfunction and partisanship in Congress that has compromised our ability to govern." She said the...U.S. Senate over the past year is relatively short, and Congress has been "unable to muster the comprehensive solutions that...
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