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Payroll Database for Anchorage Now Online

Payroll Database for Anchorage Now Online
The Alaska Policy Forum has launched a transparency website for the Municipality of Anchorage payroll. The website allows citizens to view payroll and benefit data for nearly all Municipal employees by navigating an organizational chart. The data provided lists the employee, the position title, bargaining...
February 21st, 2011 | Featured, Fiscal Policy, Recent News, Transparency | Read More

Plan to see The Cartel on Jan. 28 in Anchorage

Plan to see The Cartel on Jan. 28 in Anchorage
Event is free and open to the public. The director of the film, Bob Bowdon, will be present for a Q&A following the film. Click here to download a flyer for the event. Visit the documentary website at www.thecartelmovie.com.
January 12th, 2011 | Education, Featured | Read More

Alaska Governor Rebuffs Federal Health Care Takeover

(Politico) Governor Parnell appears to be asserting Alaska’s independence when it comes to Federal Obamacare and its mandates. (Read more…)
January 4th, 2011 | Health Care, Recent News | Read More

The Changing Face of Unions

(WSJ) Governor Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota discusses the growth of government unions and their impact on the political landscape.  No longer does the typical union member look like a construction worker, truck driver or factory worker.  (Read more…)
December 15th, 2010 | Recent News | Read More

Education: How To Fix a Broken System

(Washington Post) Top Educators Michelle Rhee, Chancellor of the D.C. Public Schools, and Joel Klein, Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, say we need to shift to a performance-driven education system to ensure our students can compete.  We need to focus on the kids, not the adults...
December 9th, 2010 | Education, Recent News | Read More

Untying the Hands of an Effective School

(Download a PDF of this article) By David Boyle Quality education is a cornerstone of the American Experiment and is vital to its leadership role in the Free World. To maintain this leadership role, we must ensure that our education system is second-to-none. Unfortunately, today, the United States lags...
November 4th, 2010 | Education, Recent News | Read More

The cost of Green Energy mandates in Massachusetts

Massachusetts has attempted to lead the push for renewable energy and energy efficiency programs. The state currently offers over 25 unique mandates, programs and incentives to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency. Since all of these mandates, programs and incentives attempt to influence the...
November 1st, 2010 | Recent News | Read More

Public Service Millionaires in Ohio

The state of Ohio has a program option called DROP that allows public employees (police officers, firefighters) to “double dip” on their pensions. This report from the Buckeye Institute explains why the program matters to the individual Ohio citizen, and specifically how the system should...
October 28th, 2010 | Recent News | Read More

Is Health Care Reform Unraveling?

Grace-Marie Turner outlines ten reasons she thinks that the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, is unraveling: 1. State pushback 2. Voter rejection 3. Lawsuits 4. Rising costs 5. Towering deficits 6. Seniors hit hard 7. Millions losing coverage 8. Job-killing mandates 9. Companies searching for exits 10....
October 26th, 2010 | Health Care, National Health Care Reform Legislation, Recent News | Read More

Quickbrief: Medicaid Expan$ion Will Bankrupt the States

(NCPA) The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is expected to add up to 16 million more Medicaid enrollees and will significantly expand eligibility for families with incomes up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level. The PPACA requires states to streamline their enrollment process...
October 25th, 2010 | Recent News | Read More

Broken Promises: Cutting Medicare to Pay for Health Care Reform

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or the recent health care law, was rushed through the political process and touted as deficit neutral legislation. One of the of the ways it was supposed to pay for itself was through cuts in other programs. Devon Herrick from the National Center for Policy...
September 20th, 2010 | Health Care, Recent News | Read More

AKWatchdog: Budget forums target police department for cuts

After the Municipality of Anchorage hosted a series of public forums on the upcoming FY 2012 budget, a report on the discussions reveals many taxpayers would like to see budget cuts within the police department. With an estimated city budget shortfall of up to $18 million, the forums gave Anchorage residents...
September 15th, 2010 | Policy | Read More

State health care exchanges of 2014

(NCPA) With examples from Massachusetts’ “Commonwealth Connector” law and California’s proposed health care exchange, NCPA explains one of the new health care law’s requirements and what it means to you. Read the article <here>
September 10th, 2010 | Health Care | Read More

Audio: The Failed Experiment of Pension Bonding

In 2008, the Alaska Legislature passed House Bill 13, which authorized the selling of bonds (debt) for investment to fill the $10 billion pension gap in PERS/TRS. But Steve Malanga from the Manhattan Institute says pension bonding is an idea that has been attempted in other states with some terrible...
August 31st, 2010 | Fiscal Policy, Recent News | Read More

Utah: Reforming health care since 2005

(Heritage Foundation) Utah continues its five-year-old health care reform plan, scheduled to take full effect in the fast approaching 2011 year, all while continuing the fight against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Portable plans for employees of small businesses is just one of the...
August 26th, 2010 | Health Care | Read More

Audio: Federal Health Care Law would create more paperwork than IRS could handle

Josh McIntyre from Mikunda, Cottrell & Co., Inc. in Anchorage explains the increased 1099 reporting requirements in the federal Health Care law. (4:47) Federal Health Care Law would increase paperwork and reporting to the IRS - Click here to listen
August 20th, 2010 | Health Care, Recent News | Read More
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