Here is an idea that should unite the University of Alaska—faculty, staff, students, former chancellors and those who want a strong university system should start pressuring the UA regents to call out Gov. Mike Dunleavy for his reckless blackmail plan.
Read MoreHow much should the state pay Donna Arduin to become a temporary advisor? The right number is zero. She can give all the advice she wants as a volunteer, which would help shrink the government footprint that Dunleavy likes to talk so much about.
Read MoreThe health committees of the Alaska Legislature should be investigating the repeated Dunleavy administration announcements about the analysis of privatizing the Alaska Psychiatric Institute that hasn’t happened.
Read MoreThe lack of candor from the state on the mishandling of the dental program cancellation is indicative of a pattern of bungling that continues as the Dunleavy administration has provided the public with no plan on the consequences of its actions on Medicaid.
Read MoreThere appears to be a connection with a lawsuit filed in July by an international company that objects to the local hire law in Alaska. Colaska, a subsidiary of Colas, a company that operates in more than 50 countries, claims the 33-year-old law is unconstitutional.
Read MoreForget the old magazines, Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s office has directed state agencies to keep a big supply of a flyer touting his accomplishments on hand for the public.
Read MoreAn Anchorage judge sided with state unions in the effort by the Gov. Mike Dunleavy and Attorney General Kevin Clarkson to make collecting union dues a harder chore for Alaska public employee unions. In a blistering order, Judge Greg Miller said there is no support for the state’s claims in any U.S. Supreme Court case.
Read MoreIn a settlement of the lawsuit this week, the Dunleavy administration reversed the 7 percent cut for the first quarter of the fiscal year—effectively agreeing that the Medicaid emergency was an artifice.
Read MoreGov. Mike Dunleavy would have the power to decide if AG Kevin Clarkson deserves free legal help. Clarkson, who owes his job to Dunleavy, would have the power to decide if Dunleavy or Lt. Gov. Kevin Meyer deserve fee legal help. It’s a perfect circle of power and conflict of interest.
Read MoreI make that claim because AIDEA’s leader, who approved the Clark Penney contract, admitted to board members that the work was not part of AIDEA and he wasn’t keeping track of Penney’s work. He thought the governor’s office was doing that.
Read MoreThis is the second new state job for the Alaska Development Team that says the successful applicant must be “comfortable dealing with ambiguity” and have the “ability to work independently.”
Read MoreWith four days left before Medicaid dental coverage is yanked, the state health commissioner refuses to say what dental services will qualify for Medicaid payment as of Tuesday at federally qualified health centers across Alaska.
Read MoreA new pro-Dunleavy political group registered with the state claims that “special interests that seek to thwart Mike Dunleavy’s fiscally conservative agenda” are behind the recall campaign, a powerful movement that gathered the support of nearly 50,000 Alaskans in a little more than a month. This tactic will help boost the recall.
Read MoreSen. Dan Sullivan, who is running for re-election, will do whatever he can to keep on the good side of President Donald Trump, as he has for almost three years.
Read MoreDunleavy, who ridicules concerns about climate change, doesn’t recognize the political risk that lies ahead when the multi-billion-dollar railroad extension becomes portrayed worldwide as a pollution friendly Alaska dream.
Read MoreAlaska is doing well, but Gov. Mike Dunleavy complains that all the press talks about are “Dunleavy draconian cuts that are killing older folks and children and women and puppies and plants and everything else.”
Read MoreSeeking an intelligent discussion about state finances is the task of Senate leaders. Babcock’s barking about those who “hate” the PFD is pure blather.
Read MoreA lawsuit filed Wednesday by a Republican Party precinct official gave Attorney General Kevin Clarkson the chance to reject an agreement signed by his own department nine days earlier when he was out of town.
Read MoreWith 26,000 students statewide, we don’t need three competing institutions lobbying the Legislature for state support, with each one setting priorities that may or may not be best for the entire state.
Read MoreThe damage started by Dunleavy and his GOP backers has touched off academic infighting that could cause the University of Alaska to implode. It has to stop.
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