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With a little more than a week left in the regular legislative session, Walker administration officials are trying to encourage legislative action on the governor’s plan for balancing the state’s checkbook. Alaska Governor Bill Walker has proposed a combination of new and increased taxes, use of the Alaska Permanent Fund and spending cuts to help narrow the gap on what now looks to be a four billion dollar budget deficit. With that kind of deficit, current projections have the state using up its main source of savings in just two years.