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Health Care Reform Legislation Timeline

Health Care Reform Legislation Timeline
As part of the effort to better understand the bill, the Alaska Policy Forum has compiled from several sources a timeline that outlines the major provisions of the legislation’s implementation. Click here to view the timeline (javascript required). There are two bills that make up President Obama’s...
July 9th, 2010 | Featured | Read More

Transparency yields government accountability

Transparency yields government accountability
While true transparency is more than just making information available on the internet, websites are a good first step. The Alaska Policy Forum is attempting to fill the need for transparency by making available to the public information about contracts and public bargaining agreements with schools,...
June 30th, 2010 | Featured | Read More

Former Crime Lab Director Criticizes New Proposal

Former Crime Lab Director Criticizes New Proposal
Former crime lab director, George Taft, criticizes proposed crime lab and recommends Alaska Policy Forum report.  April 5, 2010 Anchorage, Alaska – Another former director of the Alaska State Crime Lab has expressed his opposition to the crime lab replacement project as it has been currently proposed...
April 22nd, 2010 | Accountability, Featured | Read More

Better Education Value for Anchorage

Better Education Value for Anchorage
Download a hardcopyhere (PDF). Recently, the Anchorage School District (ASD) requested community input to assist the District and the School Board in managing their budget. The question under consideration was how to close an anticipated budget gap for FY 2011. We at the Alaska Policy Forum attended...
April 22nd, 2010 | Education, Featured | Read More

The best form of transparency

The best form of transparency
For some, the word “transparency” may seem like a political football. While there exist those who do use it as such, there is a larger worldwide effort to change the perception about government data and its usefulness to the public. Can more disclosure of government data be useful to Alaskans? Alaska...
April 20th, 2010 | Accountability, Featured | Read More

Let the Climategate Hearings Begin

Let the Climategate Hearings Begin
By Kenneth Green Climate skeptics are having a field day, celebrating the firestorm of controversy surrounding the UK’s Hadley Center Climate Research Unit (CRU), until recently, the world’s leading climate research center. One skeptic, a Canadian named Steve McIntyre has particular cause for doing...
April 20th, 2010 | Featured, Recent News | Read More

Former Crime Lab Director George Taft Recommends AFP Report

ANCHORAGE, AK – Another former director of the Alaska State Crime Lab has expressed his opposition to the crime lab replacement project as it has been currently proposed by the Department of Public Safety and has recommended the report released by the Alaska Policy Forum which addresses the merits...
April 5th, 2010 | Featured, Recent News | Read More

REPORT: Is the Crime Lab Proposal Fiscally Responsible?

The Alaska Policy Forum has released a study of the State Crime Lab replacement project proposed by the Department of Public Safety. The study concluded that the needs assessment used to determine the size of the facility was based on outdated documents. The proposed lab would include services already...
April 2nd, 2010 | Accountability, Featured | Read More