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...JUNEAU - Alaska's governor is refusing to repay or return more than $800,000 to the U.S. Forest Service due to automatic federal budget cuts.Gov. Sean Parnell, in a letter to the agency's chief, dated Sunday, said he doesn't believe...
WASHINGTON - Ten days before a new deadline for broad, automatic government spending cuts, the sense of urgency that surrounded other recent fiscal crises is absent. Government agencies are...
...could suffer harm," Brader said.The agency has 19 state offices, and workers will be furloughed for four days as part of automatic budget cuts ordered by Congress, Brader said in an announcement.Furloughed employees, by law, cannot be called in, Brader...
...proper alignment. Computers on each train and at railroad offices would track the position of each train by GPS and make automatic speed and braking adjustments.The federal law says that if this equipment is not in place by the end of 2015, the Alaska...
...That would change my calculations significantly."A senior defense official said the White House letters were not an "automatic trigger" for policy decisions on the use of military force. The official alluded to past instances of policy decisions that...
...operating would ease some of the pain of automatic spending cuts slamming the Defense Department...Pentagon has been the combination of the automatic cuts and the government still operating...month.The measure would leave in place automatic cuts of 5 percent to domestic agencies...
ANCHORAGE - The White House on Sunday released lists for each state of potential effects of automatic spending cuts set for Friday.The White House compiled the numbers from federal agencies and its own budget office. The numbers...
JUNEAU - U.S. Sen. Mark Begich is furloughing more than half his staff and giving up part of his salary due to automatic budget cuts known as the sequester, his office said.Begich is the lone member of Alaska's congressional delegation...
...Plate Handgun Speed Shoot, 9 a.m. registration, Juneau Gun Club. Division for DA revolvers, SA revolvers and semi-automatics. Bring 100 or more rounds. Dec. 8: "Going to Gondwanaland" lecture, 7:30-8:30 p.m., University of Alaska...
...Today: Steel plate handgun speed shoot, 9 a.m. registration. Divisions for DA revolvers, SA revolvers and semi-automatics. Monday- Friday: Juneau Explorers Week, 12:30-4:30 p.m., Juneau-Douglas City Museum. Aug. 6-10. Registration...