According to veteran state Sen. Bert Stedman, R-Sitka, the ideological divide between urban and rural legislators is beginning to influence Alaska’s future as much if not more than the traditional partisan dichotomy of Republican vs. Democrat.
Stedman, who represents Haines in Senate District Q, recently wrapped up his tenth session in the Alaska Legislature.
Alarmed by the declining influence of legislators in rural Alaska and the increasingly consolidated clout of policymakers in the Interior and…
