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Kyle Hopkins

Kyle Hopkins writes about Anchorage city government and politics. He covered last year's campaign for governor, and has blogged extensively about Alaska politics for the past year. He grew up in Southeast Alaska and was a reporter at the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and Anchorage Press. E-mail Kyle at khopkins@adn.com

Sean Cockerham

Sean Cockerham writes about Alaska state politics. He spent three years based in Juneau for the Daily News before joining the Tacoma News-Tribune two years ago to write about Washington state politics. He went to Iraq twice for the News Tribune, and previously wrote about Alaska government and politics for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. Now he's back in Anchorage. E-mail Sean at scockerham@adn.com

Erika Bolstad

Erika Bolstad covers Alaska issues, including the congressional delegation, from Washington, D.C., for McClatchy Newspapers. Before joining the bureau this summer, she spent seven years as a reporter at the Miami Herald, where she covered politics, government and the state legislature. E-mail Erika at ebolstad@adn.com.

AK superdelegate update - 5/9/2008 3:56 pm

'Fairbanks what!' - 5/9/2008 10:19 am

Jackson Q&A - 5/8/2008 7:15 pm

Health commissioner resigns - 5/8/2008 4:17 pm

Surreality recap - 5/8/2008 2:50 pm

The prosecutors - 5/8/2008 1:14 pm

Full Kohring statement: 'I refuse to cower ...' - 5/8/2008 12:30 pm

A ride home - 5/8/2008 11:53 am

The judge - 5/8/2008 10:46 am

42 months - 5/8/2008 10:32 am

Hitchhiking to court - 5/8/2008 10:00 am

'I'm here to proclaim my innocence' - 5/8/2008 9:24 am

'Old Valley' - 5/8/2008 9:07 am

At the courthouse - 5/8/2008 8:39 am

Where they make their money - 5/7/2008 5:42 pm

Recycling the recycling plan - 5/7/2008 4:52 pm

Metcalfe drops out - 5/7/2008 1:53 pm

Legislative director - 5/7/2008 9:15 am

Is that it for Jake? - 5/6/2008 7:04 pm

Tonight - 5/6/2008 4:29 pm

Wuerch resigns - 5/6/2008 3:06 pm

Assembly: Trashtastic - 5/5/2008 8:54 pm

Recycling the recycling plan

From Kyle Hopkins in Anchorage --

The Assembly voted 7-4 to delay one of cornerstones of the city's new recycling plans last night - a landfill and transfer station fee increase that would pay for citywide recycling efforts - until August.

Click here for the video links.

Harriet Drummond, Sheila Selkregg, Mike Gutierrez and Elvi Gray-Jackson voted against postponing it, and today Drummond says the proposal may re-surface sooner than expected.

"I'm going to try to get reconsideration of that ordinance and get it moving ... see what we can do to make the people who voted no more comfortable and get it going now," Drummond said.

Also: I am dumb.

In my story today, I referred to Assemblywoman Debbie Ossiander as the vice chair of the Assembly. That's not true. (Was there some kind of coup, former Assemblyman Allan Tesche asked in an e-mail.) Assemblywoman Sheila Selkregg is the new vice chair.


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