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On March 15, the Senate Resources Committee passed Senate Bill 60 out of committee. This bill, which I introduced last month, proposes paying a $100 subsidy for each sea otter legally harvested by an Alaska Native. The over-abundance […]

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Julie Isom, my office manager and legislative assistant, just reached her five-year anniversary working for the State Legislature. Julie is the first person you meet when you stop in my Juneau office during session and she runs my […]

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I would like to congratulate the students from Senate District Q who made the state finals for the Poetry Out Loud Program, a National Recitation Contest promoted by the Alaska State Council on the Arts and the Juneau […]

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The annual Southeast Conference Mid-Session Summit was held last week in Juneau. Southeast Conference was formed in 1958 as an association of communities joined to advocate for the establishment of the Alaska Marine Highway System. Since its inception, […]

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Recently, I introduced Senate Bill 60, an act providing a bounty on sea otters. In Southeast Alaska, the growing sea otter population is devastating the shellfish biomass. Sea otters are the only marine mammals without blubber. As a […]