3 Student power.

• Position: STATELINE - Brief article

Give students the chance, and they come up with some pretty good ideas. Freya Chay did. After her local government passed a resolution exempting renewable energy systems from property taxes, she learned it couldn't go into effect without changes to the Alaska state tax code. So Chay created and helped pass an amendment to a Senate bill allowing any municipality in Alaska the option to exempt. Chay's idea came from a program called Caring for the Kenai, which encourages young people to...