Gov. Walker hits on same budget themes with new Legislature

Gov. Bill Walker delivers his State of the State Address to the Alaska Legislature on Wednesday. Behind him, left to right, are Senate President Pete Kelly, R-Fairbanks, and House Speaker Bryce Edgmon, D-Dillingham. (Photo: Skip Gray/360 North)Same concepts, new Legislature.
In his annual State of the State Address on Wednesday, Gov. Bill Walker pushed a lot of the same ideas and proposals for solving the state’s budget crisis as last year.
Walker said the state government risks spending a