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A Partnership for Alaska’s Tech Future
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Participants in the 2021 MSBSD Girls Who Code Camp had the opportunity to experience the MTA’s innovative tech space at the Shoppes at Sun Mountain. The participants finalized projects, collaborated and heard from a panel of MTA women leaders as part of their official partnership.
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Before there was broadband, WiFi, esports, or even the internet, Matanuska Telephone Association (MTA) was partnering with area schools with a goal of making new connections – both literally and figuratively.
Launched in 1953, the co-op has long held educational initiatives as a top priority and that has not changed in the nearly 70 years since. What has changed is the technology available to both MTA and students, as well as the strategies aimed at ensuring all students in the area have a tech-forward future.
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The bill also would impose a state tax on electronic smoking products, or e-cigarettes, for the first time in Alaska. The Fairbanks City Council turned down a municipal tax on e-cigarettes, but other local governments in Alaska tax e-cigarettes, including Anchorage and Juneau.
The proposed statewide tax would be at the same rate as it is for other tobacco products in Alaska, yielding an estimated $2.5 million in revenue, according to Rep. Sara Hannan, the House sponsor.Â
The bill also would prohibit internet sales of e-cigarettes.
âThe last time we touched tobacco taxes was 17 years ago,â said Hannan, in a House Finance Committee meeting Wednesday. âVaping was not broadly used then. It is similar to other tobacco products, but it is not taxed.â
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