Gov. Bruce Rauner and House Democrats have reached a decision about how pay lottery winners, help cities and towns operate 911 centers, plow roads and train firefighters.
The amendment adopted Tuesday reverts Alaska residency requirements to Permanent Fund dividend eligibility, which, among other qualifications, requires a person be physically present in the state.
Council members approved salary increases of 8.1 to 10.6 percent for themselves after deferring raises during the recession. They also decided corporations, unions and political action committees will no longer be prohibited from contributing to campaigns.
Takeovers of lousy schools by parents never began. No new schools will be eligible for the trigger for the next three years, according to the Department of Education.
Since 1990, CalPERS nation's largest public pension system, has paid out $3.4 billion in performance fees to its private equity managers since while the controversial sector generated $24.2 billion in profits for state retirees.
Eleven people, including a Berkeley, Calif., city employee, several UC Berkeley students, a seminary student and a freelance photojournalist, are seeking damages, saying police violated their First Amendment rights and injured them during the Dec. 6 protest.
