...now if the state had been required to spend oil revenue only on the oil industry? There would never have been any surplus oil revenue to fund other state services. There would be no Permanent Fund. There would be no Permanent Fund Dividend. Lest...
...would share in revenues under Senate bill Sound off on the important issues at JUNEAU - A slice of this year's surplus oil revenues would go to communities around the state under legislation that moved out of the Senate Finance Committee on Monday...
...about $854 million - would be put into a newly created education fund, with nearly half that money coming from surplus oil revenue. The spending bill is meant to cover additional and unexpected costs to various state agencies for this fiscal...
...now if the state had been required to spend oil revenue only on the oil industry? There would never have been any surplus oil revenue to fund other state services. There would be no Permanent Fund. There would be no Permanent Fund Dividend. Lest...
...retirees collecting those generous benefits from a generation ago. And in recent years Alaska has used some of its surplus oil revenue to pay down its liability. Turns out that Rep. Mike Hawker, one of three House sponsors of restoring a state...
...think the number should be $100 million," he said. And because the state is blessed with billions of dollars in surplus oil revenue, Stedman said, it can use cash instead of bonds to pay for important projects such as the Ketchikan span. On...
...of Labor. Robinson said overall, the state has seen growth in jobs over the first three quarters of 2008. And surplus oil revenue from the first part of the year means the state won't have to make wholesale job cuts in the coming year. "In...
JUNEAU - The state House agreed Tuesday to ask voters if they would approve a plan to stash surplus oil revenues in an income-generating endowment. The measure, sponsored by Anchorage Republican Ralph Samuels, would sink all of the windfall...
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