The warm and sunny weather has been amazing! Though I m sure the heat is getting to a lot of us. The June 1 candidate filing deadline has come and gone, meaning the field has been set for all the races.
I hope everyone had a good Easter Sunday. I am finally back in Juneau after a bit of a break. Several legislators went home for the Easter weekend. Today is the day 90 of the legislative session, the statutory deadline.
A new election system, narrowly passed by voters in 2020 and set to be used in this year’s races, is aimed at getting candidates to appeal to a broad range of voters beyond their traditional base.
JUNEAU — As partisan warfare has become the norm in state legislatures and Congress, Alaska is set to embark on an experiment to see if voters themselves can disarm the