Great to sit down with some folks from Thread to talk about protecting child care and early education investment.

Today the Legislature passed HB69, which increases our education funding statute for the first time in eight years. Here's my floor speech in support of the bill: youtu.be/OssnrZHEL3c

Wow! The students and faculty at West High just made the best possible argument in support of the arts in our schools with their amazing, sold out performance of Hadestown at the Performing Arts Center last night. Well done!

I will go live today on Facebook at 2pm to talk about the budget, Senate Bill 113, and education. What questions do you have?

Thank you for working with us working to fix Alaska’s voter registration rolls. There are 106% more registered voters than eligible citizens in Alaska. A bill to fix this and other problems will be on the Senate floor Monday

Call in to support bi-partisan legislation to make our elections safer, more secure and transparent.

My end of session newsletter is out. An overview of education, the budget, and where my personal legislation stands. Feel free to send me an email at [email protected] if you have any questions. alaskasenate.org/senator/wielec…

New research shows that exercise can reduce the risk of cancer patients dying by a third, stop tumors from coming back and is more effective than drugs, according to the results of a landmark trial that could transform health guidelines worldwide theguardian.com/society/2025/j…

Since the “oil situation has deteriorated” maybe it’s time to cut back on the $655 million in oil tax credits, the $500 million in oil tax subsidies for the Willow project (for which AK gets zero royalties) and the $120 million to a single Texas oil billionaire due to a loophole

Governor Mike Dunleavy Sen. Bill Wielechowski Of note — The amount of money deposited in the state’s main rainy-day fund from so-called tax and royalty settlements dropped from $281 million in 2020 to just $3.1 million in 2024, according to documents from the Department of Revenue. #akleg Story: alaskapublic.org/news/politics/…

After President Biden blocked this deal, and President Trump opposed it on the campaign trail, Pres. Trump has now reversed course and allowed US Steel, once America’s biggest company, to go under 100% foreign ownership cnn.com/2025/06/18/bus…

In another hit to Anchorage education funding, Anchorage School District just received word that due to Pres Trump's cancellation of a grant previously approved ASD is losing $11,712,538 million in funding that was to be used for computers & technology skill training for students

I had a great time earlier this week meeting with friends and neighbors alongside Representative Donna C Mears and Representative Ted Eischeid at Chanshtnu park. Thanks to everyone for coming out and sharing your thoughts and ideas.

Gov. Dunleavy has vetoed SB 39, a bill to ban predatory lending schemes that saw some payday lenders charge interest rates of over 500%

Tucked into the Senate GOP reconciliation bill is a $5 trillion increase in the debt limit

“The Governor has asked house minority members to not show up for the first five days of the special session to prevent his vetoes to be overturned in the special session,” spokesperson for Dunleavy, Jeff Turner, said in a statement alaskasnewssource.com/2025/07/02/une…

A 7.2 earthquake hit off Sand Point. A Tsunami warning is in effect tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/20…

Gov Dunleavy just vetoed SB 156, a bill recommended by Legislative Seafood Task Force. With our fisheries being dominated by Outside special interests, this bill was designed to help struggling AK fishermen by providing competitive loans to help them buy permits, vessels and gear

Massive 8.7 earthquake off Russia abcnews.go.com/amp/US/tsunami…

Bad news as inflation increases highest amount in three years apnews.com/article/produc…