Politics

“It started out as a good idea, but incrementally got more and more complicated to the point that it’s difficult to understand, and difficult to control, and way too expensive,” said Tim Bradner, a longtime energy reporter who writes the Alaska Legislative Digest.

Superdelegates, typically chosen in a prior election, serve as a check on insurgencies and passions of the moment.

The building’s owners were seeking $34 million from the legislature. They said it cost nearly $37 million to build.

Senate Bill 91, the omnibus crime bill, is working its way through the Senate Finance Committee. In its current form, it would save the state about $150 million over the next five years, but about $100 million of that would be reinvested into programs aimed at making the community safer. The bill is primarily based…

Registered Democrats will discuss, debate and realign their support Saturday until each of the state’s 40 House districts assigns delegates proportionately to the Democratic presidential candidates.

A political cheating scandal has once again hit the pages of the National Enquirer — and it has roiled the 2016 presidential campaign even though none of the allegations have been substantiated.