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100 boats later, Homer boat company celebrates

...compared to most industries, Allen Engebretsen said, with a matching retirement plan and reimbursement for health insurance premiums. Most employees were born and raised in Homer and grew up on the water fishing."They know boats and have...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-04-01/100-boats-later-homer-boat-company-cele
State
The bottom line on taxes

...revenue.But look at the three biggest tax expenditures last year. First comes the tax-free treatment of health insurance premiums paid by employers; in 2008, Republican candidate John McCain proposed abolishing it as a sensible economic...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-04-17/bottom-line-taxes
Opinion
Free birth control mandate will hike prices for everyone

...amount to avoid the risk of having to pay a large uncertain amount. More specifically, you pay the smaller health insurance premiums to the insurer so that if you are one of the unlucky few who will get prostate cancer or have a premature baby...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-04-20/free-birth-control-mandate-will-hike-
Opinion
Alaska wise to resist exchanges

...ruled unconstitutional in a time of financial uncertainty isn't prudent. Some states are considering taxes on health insurance premiums, doctors, and "sin taxes" to pay for their exchanges; others have considered cutting education, law enforcement...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-04-17/alaska-wise-resist-exchanges
Opinion
Teachers, district headed to arbitration after mediation

...salary at each step to be increased. And they want the district to provide more money for teachers' monthly health insurance premiums. The parties have been discussing a two-year contract. The current contract expires June 30. Nonbinding...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/052804/loc_teachers.shtml
News
Teachers sign new contract

...the Juneau School District's contribution to health insurance premiums by $50 per person a month. In the contract's...also increases the district's contribution to health insurance premiums by a further $50, to a total of $735 per person...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/090504/loc_contract.shtml
News
Teachers OK new contract

...school district's contribution to teachers' health insurance premiums, although the teachers' own contributions also...additional $726,000 in salaries and $140,000 in health insurance premiums in the first year, and $600,000 more in salaries...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/090601/Loc_teachercontract.shtml
Local
Alaska Digest

...increases the rates on the schedule. It also adds to the amount that the school district pays for employee health insurance premiums. Teachers ratified the contract Friday. Under the contract, teachers' pay will range from $34,606 to...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/090804/sta_akdigest.shtml
News
Teachers far from contract agreement

...presented to the district earlier this summer. It includes raises of 4 percent and $800 a month to employee health insurance premiums. Going into talks Tuesday, the difference between the two sides' demands came to about $1.5 million...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/090905/sta_20050909014.shtml
News
Teachers have heard enough excuses

...increased considerably. I have seen new mandates for professional development and test-taking as well as a health insurance premium that has risen to the point where I now pay $153 a month for my health insurance with an anticipated increase...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/101703/let_letter2.shtml
Opinion

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