Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy’s decision to slash the state’s funding for the University of Alaska by nearly 41% has the academic and research community up in arms.
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The governor has ties to the libertarian Koch brothers and their conservative advocacy group, Americans for Prosperity, with that group’s Alaska chapter having sponsored the governor’s field hearings about the budget earlier this year, according to the Anchorage Daily News and the Center for Media and Democracy, a watchdog group based in Madison, Wis.