Politics

Gov. Bill Walker will unveil his upcoming budget Wednesday, and the backdrop isn’t pretty. To get Alaskans on the same page, budget director Pat Pitney has taken her talking points and a budget balancing game on the road. Sitka was stop number 52.

Congress has done its part, and the much-maligned law is on its way out. But what will folks say at the education law’s wake? Hint: Most won’t have tears in their eyes.

The wave of mass shootings in the U.S. is renewing a debate over treating gun violence as a public health issue. Congress has stood in the way of federal funding for studying injuries and deaths.

In his most drastic and controversial statement yet, Trump calls for a stop on any Muslims entering the U.S. “until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.”

In 2013, a Chicago suburb banned the possession of “assault weapons” and large-capacity magazines. An appeals court had upheld the local ordinance; the justices decided not to revisit the case.

Thursday’s vote marks the first time an ACA repeal bill has made it through the Senate. It will likely pass the House, but it has no chance of being signed into law by President Obama.