Editing Juneau, Alaska (section)

==Efforts to move state capital==
There have been efforts and discussions about moving Alaska's capital away from Juneau.<ref name="JE1">{{cite web |title=The long-debated capital move has resurfaced |url=https://www.juneauempire.com/opinion/the-long-debated-capital-move-has-resurfaced/ |website=Juneau Empire |access-date=May 21, 2022 |date=May 3, 2018}}</ref> A primary motivating factor has been concerns about Juneau's remote location.<ref name="APMmove1"/> In 1960, 56% of voters voted against a [[List of Alaska ballot measures#1960|measure]] to move the capital to a location in the "[[Cook Inlet]]-Railbelt Area" (the specific location would subsequently be selected by a committee appointed by the governor).<ref name="JE1" /> In 1962, 55% of voters voted against a [[List of Alaska ballot measures#1962|measure]] to move the capital to "Western Alaska... within 30 miles of [[Anchorage, Alaska|Anchorage]]". "Senior" state senators would have been chosen to select three potential sites to be put to a vote by later vote by the state's electorate.<ref name="JE1" />

In 1974, at a time when Alaska was expected to be flushed with new funds from the [[Trans-Alaska Pipeline]], 56% of Alaskan voters approved an [[List of Alaska ballot measures#1974|initiative]] to move the capital.<ref name="JE1" /><ref name="APMmove1" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Alaskans Vote to Move Capital Inland |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/08/29/archives/alaskans-vote-to-move-capital-inland.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=May 21, 2022 |date=August 29, 1974}}</ref> The initiative specified that the new location must be within 300 miles of both Anchorage and [[Fairbanks, Alaska|Fairbanks]] and have at least 100 square miles of donated public land. The initiative would have the final location selected by a committee appointed by the governor. The committee proposed Larson Lake, Mount Yenlo, and [[Willow, Alaska|Willow]] as sites and Willow received 53% of votes in a 1976 statewide [[List of Alaska ballot measures#1976|vote]]. However, in 1978, voters rejected a [[List of Alaska ballot measures#1978|measure]] to fund a move to Willow, with 55% of voters voting against spending $996 million to move the capital there.<ref name="JE1" /><ref name="APMmove1">{{cite web |last1=Kelly |first1=Casey |title=Alaska's Capital City Changes With The Times |url=https://www.alaskapublic.org/2013/03/06/alaskas-capital-city-changes-with-the-times/ |website=Alaska Public Media |access-date=May 21, 2022 |date=March 7, 2013}}</ref> In 1978, voters also approved the Fiscally Responsible Alaskans Needing Knowledge (FRANK) Initiative, which required that all costs of moving the capital be disclosed and approved by Alaskans before the move commenced.<ref name="JE1" /> In 1982, 53% of voters [[List of Alaska ballot measures#1982|voted]] against spending roughly $2.9 billion to move the capital to Willow. This vote also had the effect of repealing the previous approval of moving the capital.<ref name="JE1" />

In 1994, a statewide [[List of Alaska ballot measures#1994|initiative]] to move Alaska's capital to [[Wasilla, Alaska|Wasilla]] was defeated by a vote of 116,277 (54.7%) to 96,398 (45.3%). At the same time, 77% of voters approved a renewed FRANK Initiative.<ref name="JE1" /><ref name="NYT_ElectionWest_19941110">{{cite news |access-date=September 9, 2008 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/10/us/the-1994-elections-state-by-state-west.html |title=The 1994 Elections: State by State; West |date=November 10, 1994 |work=[[The New York Times]] |first1=Raymond |last1=Hernandez |first2=Robert D. Jr. |last2=Hershey |first3=Lynette |last3=Holloway |first4=Randy |last4=Kennedy |first5=Stephen |last5=Labaton |first6=Tamar |last6=Lewin |first7=Neil A. |last7=Lewis |first8=Norimitsu |last8=Onishi |first9=Eric |last9=Schmitt |first10=Keith |last10=Bradsher}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |access-date=September 9, 2008 |url=http://www.elections.alaska.gov/result94.htm#bal3 |title=Alaska's 1994 General Election Results Summary |publisher=Alaska Division of Elections |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080801054315/http://www.elections.alaska.gov/result94.htm |archive-date=August 1, 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2002, Alaskan voters again voted against moving the state's capital.<ref name="APMmove1" /> Advocacy for a capital move has continued.<ref name="JE1" /><ref>{{cite web |last1=Manning |first1=Phillip |last2=Talkeetna |first2=KTNA- |title=State Reps. Kurka and Eastman sponsor bill to move the capital from Juneau to Willow |url=https://www.alaskapublic.org/2022/02/11/state-reps-kurka-and-eastman-sponsor-bill-to-move-the-capital-from-juneau-to-willow/ |website=Alaska Public Media |access-date=May 21, 2022 |date=February 11, 2022}}</ref>