The Anchorage Daily News published a piece by former South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint in which he shares his great and unmatched wisdom about the Alaska recall effort.
Read MoreIn the letter to legislative leaders explaining what work is being done or will be done on the BP-Hilcorp sale, Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Corri Feige includes a mistake about federal actions regarding the BP-ARCO merger in 2000.
Read MoreThe revelation is enough to justify public hearings by the Legislature and belatedly involve Alaskans in the debate about the BP sale to Hilcorp announced on Aug. 27.
Read MoreThe silence from the Dunleavy administration about the BP $5.6 billion sale to Hilcorp is alarming. Where is the report informing Alaskans about the public policy questions related to taxes, maintenance and the future of the pipeline?
Read More“It was a life based on service, not on the accumulation of money. America needs more people like that.”
—By Steve Cowper
Read MoreJB Carnahan was a Fairbanks fixture for nearly a half-century—a policeman, borough assembly member, Shriner, volunteer, Crimestoppers TV spokesman, businessman and one of the morning hosts on KIAK-FM.
Read MoreGov. Mike Dunleavy continues to be the governor of the education promise, abandoning one pledge after another depending upon the conditions of the moment and the audience, always acting as if he is not contradicted himself.
Read MoreWhat Gov. Mike Dunleavy wants is what Attorney General Kevin Clarkson wants—for the recall court case to be tied up as long as possible, hoping that the momentum for recalling Dunleavy will dissipate.
Read MoreAttorney General Kevin Clarkson, backed by Gov. Mike Dunleavy, now wants to spend an additional $500,000 to $600,000 pushing his anti-union crusade. The Legislature should refuse to appropriate a dime.
Read MoreAttorney General Kevin Clarkson invented the idea that funding education a year in advance was improper. It was a political move to try to force the Legislature to appropriate money so the governor could veto hundreds of millions from schools. The scare tactic didn’t work.
Read MoreThe Alaska attorney general understood better than anyone that he had no business deciding the merits of a petition to recall the governor of Alaska.
Read MoreAlaska Attorney General Kevin Clarkson has lost another round in state court in his anti-union crusade. It turns out the $600-an-hour discount legal help he sought from President Trump’s lawyers, the same guys who say the president if above the law, didn’t help.
Read MoreWhat happened Monday was that Attorney General Kevin Clarkson, a political operative, tried to protect his boss from a process guaranteed in the Constitution, while dressing up a glorified Dunleavy press release as scholarly analysis.
Read MoreThe recall campaign against former Gov. Wally Hickel and former Lt. Gov. Jack Coghill in 1991-93 was not at all like the campaign against Gov. Mike Dunleavy. The grounds for recall against Dunleavy are far more likely to prevail in court.
Read MoreWe should know Monday or Tuesday if the Dunleavy administration will allow the Dunleavy recall campaign to proceed or if it will invent legal excuses to add court delays to a process that has already gone on too long.
Read MoreThe state now plans to seek competitive bids to push AG Kevin Clarkson’s anti-union crusade through state and federal courts. With luck, whoever gets the job will match the “Alaska discounted rate” of $600 an hour.
Read MoreSupporters of the “Fair Share Act”, an initiative to raise Alaska taxes on the most profitable oil fields, will hold a kickoff event Sunday at 3 p.m. to bring the signature-collection drive to Fairbanks.
Read MoreWatch as Rep. Don Young headbutts a camera and refuses to answer a question about foreign governments interfering in U.S. elections.
Read MoreFormer Attorney General Craig Richards, now under contract to fight the recall of Gov. Mike Dunleavy, says the statewide campaign to remove the governor from office is all about opposition to Dunleavy making the tough decisions that he promised as a candidate.
Read MoreSen. Lora Reinbold thought she heard a University of Alaska Anchorage professor describe an easy way to cut $50 million in administrative expenses from the UA budget. It was what she wanted to hear.
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