No need to announce the amount of the Permanent Fund dividend on live TV this year, with a phony sense of mystery about the number.
Action by the Legislature and Gov. Bill Walker took the suspense out of the exercise this year with a bipartisan decision two months ago to set the 2017 dividend at $1,100 in a state law. That followed the most difficult and important decision of Walker’s time in office — the 2016 veto that cut the dividend to $1,000, a decision upheld by the Supreme Court.
Those who feel shortchanged by a dividend that is about […]
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