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One of the most cynical things Alaska legislators ever did (and that’s saying something) was voting to gut the 2002 minimum wage increase less than one year after lawmakers passed it. After trying to supplant a voter initiative approved for the 2002 statewide election with weaker measures, Republican majorities finally took the advice of their own attorneys that they could only moot the initiative with a bill virtually identical to the ballot measure. So, they passed such a bill, which included an annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) and a...