...budget amendment, there is a provision in the Alaska Constitution that bars borrowing money to balance a budget, said Gordon Harrison, author of "Alaska's Constitution: A Citizen's Guide.""We don't have any ability to float any bonds to...
...irregardless of boundaries. Where they were from never mattered to me." According to Elizabeth Snyder, assistant to Gordon Harrison, executive director of the redistricting board, the board's Juneau office had received notice of a lawsuit originating...
...approve any plan produced by the board. Rindner's decision could be appealed to the state Supreme Court, said Gordon Harrison, executive director of the board. The Redistricting Board must complete its work before the June 1 deadline for...
...approaching the issue of a constitutional amendment. Our state constitution clearly spells out the amendment process. As Gordon Harrison points out in his Citizen?s Guide to the Alaska Constitution, the drafters of our constitution purposefully chose...
...All the plantiffs in the case except for the city of Craig agreed not to dispute the map before the court, said Gordon Harrison, board executive director. The board has until June 1 to approve a plan to meet a deadline for candidates' filing...
...index. That could make the commission able to be abolished, they said. That might not work, warned commissioner Gordon Harrison. If the system got out-of-whack, there would be no way to fix it. That's what happened with the Legislature...
...in Juneau on Friday to consider alternate plans to fix the redistricting map in time for a June 1 deadline, said Gordon Harrison, board executive director. That map, which would pit 20 Republican incumbents against each other, was struck down...
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