Alaska Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy unveiled a budget plan Thursday that would pay residents an oil-wealth dividend of about $3,400 next year using a formula that lawmakers have all but abandoned and use savings to plug an estimated $990 million deficit. The proposal does not include an increase in the …
Read More »Alaska pilot seeks SCOTUS relief in case in which three beer cases led to forfeiture of $95K plane
An 82-year-old Alaskan bush pilot is seeking to take his fight over a $95,000 airplane and a few cans of beer to the U.S. Supreme Court, according to his lawyers. With the help of the Institute for Justice, Kenneth Jouppi is appealing a ruling by the Alaska Supreme Court that …
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