...following years. Both measures have emerged in recent weeks as key elements in a fiscal plan aimed at closing the state's chronic budget shortfalls. Alaska counts on oil revenues for about 80 percent of state government's revenue stream. But oil...

...ballot. Knowles said Republican lawmakers ignored several major issues, such as subsistence and a plan to fix the state's chronic budget problems, as a result. ''I think this session was sadly shortsighted,'' Knowles said, noting that lawmakers...

...contentious four months of negotiations with Democrats and the moderate wing of the GOP to craft a fix for the state's chronic budget shortfalls. Much of the debate has been driven by a bipartisan Fiscal Policy Caucus, which began working over...