{"id":45904,"date":"2019-04-04T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/effort-to-move-legislative-sessions-to-anchorage-overcomes-hurdle\/"},"modified":"2019-04-04T15:34:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T23:34:07","slug":"effort-to-move-legislative-sessions-to-anchorage-overcomes-hurdle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/effort-to-move-legislative-sessions-to-anchorage-overcomes-hurdle\/","title":{"rendered":"Effort to move legislative sessions to Anchorage overcomes hurdle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Supporters of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/initiative-would-move-legislatures-meetings-to-anchorage\/\" target=\"_blank\">proposed ballot initiative<\/a> seeking to move legislative sessions from Juneau to Anchorage have gotten the OK to gather signatures to try to qualify it for next year&rsquo;s ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Gov. Kevin Meyer says supporters need to gather 28,501 signatures from across Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal seeks to relocate &ldquo;regular and special meetings&rdquo; of the Legislature to Anchorage but not move the capital.<\/p>\n<p><ins><a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/opinion\/the-road-and-the-capital-move\/\" target=\"_blank\">[Opinion: The Road and the capital move]<\/a><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>The measure doesn&rsquo;t specify where the Legislature would meet, though Ken Jacobus, an attorney who has assisted the measure&rsquo;s sponsors, has said they aren&rsquo;t seeking to have new buildings built.<\/p>\n<p>Buildings other than the Capitol also house legislative staff in Juneau.<\/p>\n<p>A Department of Law review said some of the proposal&rsquo;s language may be contradictory or confusing but nonetheless met the standards for certifying the application.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>\u2022 This is an Associated Press report by Becky Bohrer.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proposal would not move the capital. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":45905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[34,230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-45904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-alaska-legislature","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45904"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=45904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}