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  • 'Gloom and doom': budget deficit looms large for legislators and locals

    Mary Koppes and Dani Palmer|Mar 12, 2015

    As the 29th Alaska State Legislature reached the halfway point of this year's session last week, Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, House District 25 representative, stopped in Petersburg to talk about legislature issues with a local impact. By far, the budget is the largest issue facing this year's legislature, Kresis-Tomkins said. "I ran into someone yesterday and we were talking really briefly about it and I mentioned I felt like a pallbearer at a funeral because of the budget," he said. "Gloom and doom is kind of the mood." That's because the state... Full story