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    Articles by Ashlyn O'Hara
    Armageddon waits to be shown at the Kenai Peninsula District 4-H Agriculture Expo on Friday, Aug. 4, 2023, at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex in Soldotna, Alaska. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)
    Bjorkman farm tax relief bill clears Senate
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • March 27, 2024 2:30 am

    The bill is now up for consideration in the House

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    A slash pile containing non-organic construction debris is seen at the Snug Harbor Slash Disposal site on Sept. 22, 2020 in Cooper Landing, Alaska. (Photo courtesy Kenai Peninsula Borough Lang Management)
    Assembly OKs concrete lease in Cooper Landing
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • March 27, 2024 2:30 am

    A Kenai-based concrete company will set up shop in Cooper Landing to help build parts of a state bypass project…

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    Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Finance Director Liz Hayes, left, presents preliminary fiscal year 2025 budge information during a school board committee meeting on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
    School district committee builds multiple budget scenarios amid...
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • March 27, 2024 1:30 am

    ‘We don’t get to play around on this one’

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    Nikiski Republican Sen. Jesse Bjorkman, right, speaks against the Alaska Legislature’s Monday failure to override Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of a comprehensive education bill during a press conference on Tuesday, March 19, 2024, in Juneau, Alaska. (Mark Sabbatini/Juneau Empire)
    ‘The ball is now very clearly in their...
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • March 20, 2024 2:30 am

    Senate looks to House on next steps for education funding

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    The Alaska State Capitol on Friday, March 1, 2024, in Juneau, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
    House passes bill altering wording of sex crimes...
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • March 20, 2024 2:30 am

    The bill is sponsored by Rep. Sarah Vance, R-Homer

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    Rep. Sarah Vance, R-Homer, walks into the Alaska House of Representatives before consideration of a veto override regarding education funding on Monday, March 18, 2024 in Juneau, Alaska. (Mark Sabbatini/Juneau Empire)
    By 1 vote, lawmakers sustain Dunleavy veto of...
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • March 20, 2024 2:30 am

    The bipartisan bill included $680 increase to per-student funding

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    Nikiski Middle/High School student Maggie Grenier testifies in favor of a base student allocation increase before the Alaska Senate Education Committee on Monday, Feb. 12, 2024, in Juneau, Alaska. (Screenshot)
Nikiski Middle/High School student Maggie Grenier testifies in favor of a base student allocation increase before the Alaska Senate Education Committee on Monday, Feb. 12, 2024, in Juneau, Alaska. (Screenshot)
    Students report mixed responses from lawmakers in education...
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • March 13, 2024 3:30 am

    Delegates from the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District lobbied the Alaska Legislature for more state funding and other education priorities

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    The Kachemak Selo Middle-High School building sits against a backdrop of the ridge separating the village from the Kenai Peninsula Borough road system Thursday, Aug. 30 in Kachemak-Selo. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)
    Borough, state at odds over best path forward...
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • March 13, 2024 2:30 am

    Micciche said Wednesday that he and the Senate president are working together to determine a viable path forward

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    Bud Sexton, chief of staff for Alaska House Rep. Justin Ruffridge, reviews amendment language in their office at the Alaska State Capitol building on Wednesday, March 6, 2024, in Juneau, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
    In Juneau, making laws is a group effort
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • March 13, 2024 2:30 am

    Ruffridge chief of staff says team shares commitment to hard work

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    Sen. Jesse Bjorkman, R-Nikiski, speaks in opposition to an executive order that would abolish the Board of Certified Direct-Entry Midwives during a joint legislative session on Tuesday, March 12, 2024 in Juneau, Alaska. (Ashlyn O'Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
    Legislature kills most of Dunleavy’s executive orders in...
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • March 13, 2024 2:30 am

    All the proposed orders would have shuffled or eliminated the responsibilities of various state boards

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    Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Finance Director Liz Hayes, left, presents preliminary fiscal year 2025 budge information during a school board committee meeting on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
    School board bets on state funding increase, issues...
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • March 13, 2024 2:30 am

    Thursday’s meeting came two days after board members convened to plan out the district’s immediate financial future

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    A Bureau of Ocean Energy Management pamphlet rests on a desk in the Alaska State Capitol on Monday, March 11, 2024 in Juneau, Alaska. (Ashlyn O'Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
    BOEM Alaska office probes renewables development in Cook...
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • March 13, 2024 2:30 am

    National Renewable Energy Lab estimates that there are 18 gigawatts of tidal power in Cook Inlet

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    Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion
A copy of Tom Kizzia’s “Cold Mountain Path” rests on a table on Thursday in Juneau.
    Off the Shelf: Ghosts come alive in Kizzia’s...
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • March 6, 2024 2:30 am

    From boomtown to abandoned, the town of McCarthy sets the stage for a compelling narrative

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