Higher oil prices and federal aid improve Alaska’s revenue forecast Published 4 days ago
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Print article JUNEAU Alaska is expected to receive $460 million more than previously expected from oil taxes in the next fiscal year, according to a new forecast released this week. The money “doesn’t bring in more opportunities for additional expenditures or anything like that,” said Sen. Bert Stedman, R-Sitka and co-chairman of the budget-writing Senate Finance Committee, but “it takes a little bit of pressure off” as legislators attempt to balance the state’s need for services and its desire for a large Permanent Fund dividend.
My week on patrol with Britain s armed response police
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By: Nick Rufford
Terror attacks, gang wars, armed robbery as crime involving weapons surges, Britain s armed response officers have to be ready for anything. Nick Rufford joins them for a week. The first call of the evening comes on the radio at 8.36pm, less than 30 minutes after the armed response vehicle (ARV) rolled out on patrol from the prison-like gates of a grey police building in Lambeth, south London. We are on our way to a reported stabbing. A male youth is lying injured in a street in nearby Tooting. Those are all the details we have. He could be the victim of a gang skirmish, a targeted assault, or more chillingly, a terrorist attack.
European summer droughts since 2015 exceed anything in the past two millennia
CAMBRIDGE, 16. März (WNM/University of Cambridge/ Petra Giegerich) - Recent summer droughts in Europe are far more severe than anything in the past 2,100 years, according to a new study. An international team studied the chemical fingerprints in European oak trees to reconstruct summer climate over 2,110 years. They found that after a long-term drying trend, drought conditions since 2015 suddenly intensified, beyond anything in the past two thousand years. This anomaly is likely the result of human-caused .
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Whangamata Easter Art Trail set to be biggie
16 Mar, 2021 10:25 PM
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Bernie Ross is Host of Art at 129. in Moana Anu Anu Ave, along with a bunch of very creative artists, working in a wide range of media. Photo / Supplied
Bernie Ross is Host of Art at 129. in Moana Anu Anu Ave, along with a bunch of very creative artists, working in a wide range of media. Photo / Supplied
The Whangamata and environs art scene is healthier than it has ever been if the latest event of the Whangamata Art Collective is anything to go by.
This year s Easter Arts Trail will be the biggest yet, with artist hubs for the first time at Whangamata Information Centre, new hubs in Opoutere and Whiritoa, and even at the unusual location of the Whangamata Barber s Shop.
Print article After I moved to a Republican Senate district a few years back, I suggested to my representatives in Juneau that they should work to pass a comprehensive approach to our budget crisis, including new revenue. Oh no, was the response from my senator, it’s too early for that, we need to cut the budget first. OK, maybe, but after they cut it as much as they apparently could and we started spending our reserves, they still refused to do anything we’re in a recession, we can’t impose new taxes now. When Gov. Bill Walker proposed an income tax, the majority didn’t try to amend it or suggest an alternative, but simply refused to consider it. And so we went through some $15 billion in reserves.