New Alaska House Majority announces plan to streamline budget process

Each year lawmakers grapple with how to structure the state’s annual operating budget, which often pushes them into working overtime in Juneau, but the new Alaska House Majority says it has a plan to keep legislators on track for a 90-day session this year.
Lawmakers work through an extensive process to determine how much money will go to funding state services. It usually starts with budget subcommittees — groups under the auspices of the finance committee that spend weeks scru