Updated Aug. 19

The borough clerk’s office has approved three ballot initiatives for October’s election. All three seek to reverse previous initiatives voted into law in recent elections. 

One of the approved initiatives is mayor Tom Morphet’s effort to cut the senior property tax exemption from $300,000 of exempt property value to $200,000 of exempt property value. 

That would partially roll back a change from the 2024 municipal election, when residents voted to increase the…

Will Steinfeld is a documentary photographer and reporter in Southeast Alaska, formerly in New England.