The story in the Daily News-Miner Saturday doesn’t go far enough to explain that the policy change by the Department of Environmental Conservation means drinking water deemed unsafe last fall and summer will now be classified as safe.
Read MoreThe photo used by the governor on Facebook and Twitter shows at least a couple of people may have responded to Porcaro’s pitch to “click the picture” and buy 100 red pens from Amazon.com for $19.99 and have them sent to Dunleavy.
Read MoreThe memo is a weak attempt to give Dunleavy leverage in forcing the Legislature to advance his constitutional amendments. Holding schools hostage will do harm to Alaskans. It will do nothing to boost the governor’s plan.
Read MoreThe state has implemented a double standard on providing drinking water to Alaskans living in areas where PFAS pollution has been detected.
Read MoreThe state Department of Environmental Conservation says that it will now measure pollution levels from only two PFAS chemicals instead of six, meaning that the state will accept higher pollution levels in drinking water. Bad move by DEC Commissioner Jason Brune.
Read MoreWhat follows is the attack that State Farm Insurance agent Dick Randolph wrote about my twin brother and myself in the Daily News-Miner today. Dick’s insults don’t bother me. They encourage me.
Read MoreAt a press conference Tuesday, Gov. Mike Dunleavy changed his story once again on his 2017 plan to cut $1.1 billion from the budget. The fiscal fantasy show goes on.
Read MoreThe right-wing Alaska Policy Forum was not enthusiastic about a recent column of mine in which I predicted that the right-wing Buckeye Institute in Ohio will give Gov. Mike Dunleavy exactly what he wants—research claiming that Alaska can’t afford a tax increase of any size or any kind.
Read MoreThere is uncertainty about this because it appears that Commissioner Jason Brune has yet to officially reject the PFAS regulations. Until that happens, all we have to go on is what DEC says on its site—that cleanup levels have been set for six chemicals in Alaska.
Read MorePick your favorite number about unfilled positions—1,500, 2,000 or 3,000—and the hundreds of millions to be saved. The Dunleavy budget has proven that all of them were wrong.
Read MoreGov. Mike Dunleavy keeps spreading a false statistic about Alaska public school spending, unhindered by the facts.
Read MoreNo one who reads this report can honestly conclude that “Alaska ranks behind the Congo on predictability of our permitting regime.”
Read MoreDEC Commissioner Jason Brune wants the state to sit back and allow the federal Environmental Protection Agency under President Trump to interpret the science and tell Alaska what to do about PFAS water contamination.
Read MoreLong-term operation of the hospital under a no-bid deal is unjustified. It seems as if goal was to get hundreds of state employees off the payroll as soon as possible.
Read MoreThe Legislature should exercise its budget powers in setting this year’s dividend, and then should change the formula in the law so that Alaskans can move on to other debates.
By Larry Persily
Read MoreThe proposed constitutional amendment would make it nearly impossible to raise oil taxes in Alaska. It would do this by mandating a two-step process to increase or enact any state tax, which would give a powerful advantage to those who want to block any change.
Read MoreWhen Dunleavy talks about oil production numbers he leaves out the all-important bit about the natural decline rate from the old fields and gives the impression that he is talking about an increase from the current level.
Read MoreThe Alaska Constitution is not a bargaining chip. Alaskans need to tell their legislators that safeguards built into the most important document in state government should not be trading material with the Dunleavy administration.
Read MoreWhile checking into the decision by Gov. Mike Dunleavy to get expert advice from Ohio about the wisdom of his anti-tax ideas, I came across a video in which Donna Arduin claims that economists and historians are wrong about the Great Depression.
Read MoreThe Dunleavy administration has asked a Koch Network group in Ohio with a past connection to temporary budget director Donna Arduin for guidance. What a waste of state money this is.
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