Print article JUNEAU The Alaska Senate voted on Wednesday to allow its leaders to exclude Sen. Lora Reinbold, R-Eagle River, from the state Capitol and most in-person legislative activities because of repeated refusals to follow precautions against COVID-19. Immediately after the vote, Reinbold attempted to convene a meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which she chairs. The Senate secretary and Senate President Peter Micciche, R-Soldotna, withdrew all staff from the meeting. “This meeting is canceled,” he told Reinbold, who sat in the chairman’s seat, filming Micciche with her cellphone. Reinbold can still participate in committee meetings by phone and she can cast votes from a spot in the Senate’s spectator gallery, Micciche said.
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Alaska tribal health consortium provides vaccines for state Capitol Published March 5
Rep. Bart LeBon, R-Fairbanks, gets a second COVID-19 vaccination on Friday, March 5, 2021 at Ron s Apothecary in Juneau. The Alaska State Capitol is beginning a vaccination drive for people who work in the building, using vaccines contributed by a tribal health group. LeBon s vaccination was unrelated to the drive. (James Brooks / ADN)
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Print article JUNEAU Southeast Alaska’s tribal health organization has donated 300 COVID-19 vaccines for a vaccination drive at the Alaska State Capitol following an outbreak in the building. The first legislative workers received their shots Friday from vials provided by the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium. Additional people will be vaccinated in the coming week.
To combat sexism, Alaska has to stop looking the other way Author: Laura Norton-Cruz
Print article Members of the Alaska House of Representatives take their oaths of office on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021 in the Alaska State Capitol at Juneau, Alaska. Members of the 40-person House took their oaths in four 10-person groups. (James Brooks / ADN) Last week, we watched Rep. Zack Fields deliver a humiliating “Happy Birthday” speech to a younger woman colleague, followed by a vague apology on Facebook. We knew this moment was linked to so many other such moments, this behavior part of a pattern in the Alaska political world and in Alaska communities.
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