...Topping the list of ordinances is a measure to ask Soldotna voters to exempt Soldotna officials from state financial disclosure laws, and instead establish city financial disclosure guidelines. Soldotna City Manager Larry Semmens has said the state's...

...so-called issue ads are thinly veiled endorsements of or opposition to a particular candidate. They should be covered by disclosure laws and limits on campaign contributions. Earlier versions of this year's reform bill put much tighter limits on phony...

...can be confident they know where that source of income is coming from," Dauphinais said. "That's the point of disclosure laws, transparency for the public."Dauphinais said the whole reason for the re-writing of the regulations was to...

...council's consideration prior to the October election when voters will decide whether to exempt Soldotna from the state disclosure law. Phil Hermanek can be reached at phillip.hermanek@peninsulaclarion.com.

...Peninsula Borough Assembly on Tuesday could add its voice to the city of Kenai's in urging a change to state financial disclosure laws. The assembly will consider Resolution 2008-032, which urges legislators to ease the impact of statutes requiring...

...consequence: It exposed some of the problems of the "electronic services and products" portion of the public records disclosure law (AS 40.25.115) which was last updated by the Legislature in 1992. There is no indication that the Legislature...

...is woefully obsolete. Its database, FoxPro, is no longer supportable. Revisions to the state's campaign disclosure law adopted in 2003 and accompanied by a $450,000 state capital budget appropriation helped launch the ongoing effort...