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George Martinez

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George Martinez

Assembly Member · Anchorage Assembly · District 5

Elected OfficialVerified

50 articles · 20 transcripts · 8 clips

Also known as:Assembly Member MartinezMartinez

Self-employed strategic consultant. Former college professor, artist, and U.S. cultural envoy. Previously Special Assistant to the Mayor. BA and doctoral fellow in political science. Term expires 2026.

Affiliations

Municipality of Anchorage: Assembly Member, Member, Assemblymember

Anchorage overlay developers would pay full cost of water and sewer extensions, AWWU says

Alaska News1d ago

East Anchorage Assembly member proposes free People Mover rides for enrolled students 18 and older

“People Mover should not have to cross check a student ID with”
Alaska News1d ago

Assembly hears proposal Nov. 4 that would make candidates disclose property tax exemptions

Alaska News2d ago

Anchorage's water utility could own the rights to most of the city's tap water in 2055

Alaska News1w ago

Anchorage ordinance would make candidates disclose residency dates and tax exemptions

Alaska News1w ago

Anchorage Assembly amends proposed police surveillance rules, then runs out of time

Alaska News1w ago

Downtown business leaders ask Anchorage Assembly to make police foot patrol permanent

Alaska News1w ago

Anchorage officials propose asking voters to fund an ambulance and its crew

Alaska News2w ago

Anchorage Assembly approves Tozier Tract land swap with nonbinding housing targets

Alaska News2w ago

Northeast Anchorage council urges "thorough and independent" study of Assembly spending

Alaska News2w ago

Alaska Supreme Court hears Valdez redistricting fee dispute

Alaska News3w ago

Anchorage voters could update ballot signatures with the clerk under proposed ordinance

Alaska News3w ago

Anchorage weighs requiring candidates to gather voter signatures to get on the ballot

“may be underestimated”
Alaska News3w ago

Anchorage Assembly members question plan to elect School Board by district

“demonstrable unrepresentation or underfunding or inequities”
Alaska News3w ago

Anchorage Assembly postpones missing middle housing vote to Nov. 4

Alaska News3w ago

Anchorage ordinance would raise transit-corridor density target from 8 to 36 homes per acre

Alaska News3w ago

Anchorage Assembly to consider Disability Employment Awareness Month resolution

Alaska News4w ago

Anchorage police officers now must intervene when a colleague uses improper force

Alaska News1mo ago

Sitka's savings for future repairs has shrunk three years running

“The more we wait, more expensive it gets.”
Alaska News1mo ago

Anchorage housing overlay hearing carries to Oct. 6 after divided testimony

Alaska News1mo ago

Anchorage wants 10,000 homes. Its zoning fight is over where they can fit.

Alaska News1mo ago

Anchorage could shrink its minimum lot size by two-thirds under a pending ordinance

Alaska News1mo ago

Anchorage auditors flag a gap in Assembly travel approvals

“the extra day is for post-conference -related meetings”
Alaska News1mo ago

Planners urged cutting the overlay's R-1 height break. The sponsors kept it.

Alaska News1mo ago

Anchorage will weigh housing density, not just price, when it sells land

Alaska News1mo ago

Fifteen Anchorage Assembly members will have their spending accounts examined in a 9-2 vote

Alaska News2mo ago

The Anchorage Assembly may audit every member's spending

Alaska News2mo ago

Anchorage Assembly committees would consolidate under a draft from the Rules chair

Alaska News2mo ago

As a crime center vote nears, Anchorage weighs whether its privacy limits should be policy or law

Alaska News2mo ago

Anchorage approves a Muldoon Road marijuana store, over a dispute about how close it sits to a playground

Alaska News2mo ago

Mayor LaFrance faces a campaign-finance hearing over her 2024 expenditure reports

Alaska News2mo ago

The Assembly says Anchorage hunger is rising. Its resolution does not say how it knows.

Alaska News2mo ago

A matter the Anchorage Assembly declared closed still draws a request for five minutes

Alaska News2mo ago

Anchorage Assembly rejects investigation into member Martinez's travel, 5-6

Alaska News2mo ago

The Anchorage Assembly studied how to remove one of its own. It never has.

Alaska News3mo ago

A substitute would swap Martinez's removal for a travel investigation

Alaska News3mo ago

Anchorage takes another run at its missing-middle housing rules

“Anchorage must have more realistic housing options for working families, young professionals, elders, and longtime residents who want to age in place”
Alaska News3mo ago

Removing an Assembly member takes 94 days and a supermajority

Alaska News3mo ago

Anchorage Assembly weighs how hard to investigate Martinez's travel

Alaska News3mo ago

Anchorage police oversight proposal dies without a second

Alaska News3mo ago

Anchorage resolution would steer infrastructure to neighborhoods absorbing new housing

Alaska News3mo ago

Anchorage's Assembly weighs censure — or removal — of George Martinez

Alaska News3mo ago

Anchorage Assembly approves $750K True North grant after amendments fail and crisis-care dispute divides members

Alaska News3mo ago

Perjury counts detail Martinez's 63-minute Fort Lauderdale trip and evasive oath testimony

“were unknown at the time of the transaction”
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Anchorage Assembly to consider first-ever removal proceeding against Martinez

“the itinerary was designed to give me approximately 20 hours of uninterrupted planning time”
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Anchorage takes another run at 'missing middle' housing

Alaska News4mo ago

Anchorage Assembly introduces resolution to initiate first-ever removal proceeding against member Martinez

“were unknown at the time of the transaction”
Alaska News4mo ago2 attributions

Anchorage Assembly unanimously passes veteran-owned business preference ordinance

Alaska News4mo ago

Anchorage Assembly members call on Martinez to resign after APOC ruling

Alaska News4mo ago

Two Assembly members want Martinez out. The removal law may not reach him

Alaska News4mo ago