The most serious unexamined question for Alaska’s news organizations is why the Dunleavy administration decided that frontline essential workers should be given a lower priority for vaccine access than medical professionals recommended in a 20-0 vote. This is all about the political power of those aged 65 and older.
Read MoreThat Sen. Dan Sullivan has nothing of substance to say about the Republican attempt to overturn the presidential election is in keeping with his practice of keeping quiet in the corner for as long as possible, sometimes allowing his underlings to make mealy-mouthed statements of inconsequence.
Read MoreThe Anchorage Daily News, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, the Peninsula Clarion, the Delta Discovery, the Arctic Sounder, the Bristol Bay Times, the Cordova Times, the Mat-Su Frontiersman and the Ketchikan Daily News printed the Dunleavy piece without blinking.
Read MoreHis lifelong interest in ambidexterity, a dear friend told me, was based on his uncanny ability to write illegibly with both hands.
Read MoreGov. Mike Dunleavy chose to ignore the $8.5 billion drop in the value of the Permanent Fund over the first 18 days of March, concocting a fraudulent claim that the fund gained $11 billion since the start of the pandemic.
Read MoreThe reasonable interpretation is that AIDEA tried to limit public attention for its meeting Wednesday and tried to sneak this one by. That is the wrong way for a state entity to do business, especially on a matter of this importance.
Read MoreFour Eagle River DMV positions would be transferred to Anchorage under the Dunleavy budget, while six positions in more remote towns would be eliminated.
Read MoreThis is just a guess because the meeting is secret, but I’m guessing that AIDEA plans to meet two days before Christmas to talk about bidding on tracts in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, an idea floated by former Govs. Frank Murkowski and Bill Walker.
Read MoreThe state is looking to permanently move people to telework, which is the first step toward outsourcing and privatizing many tasks so that they can be performed anywhere in the world, reducing the number of state employees in the process.
Read MoreFederal funds have provided temporary relief for Alaska’s public broadcasters, but Gov. Mike Dunleavy is again proposing to eliminate $2.7 million in state grants for public radio and TV for the next fiscal year.
Read MoreThis could be an expensive act of political symbolism for Alaska, seeing as how the opposition to Arctic drilling is a growing worldwide phenomenon. Nearly 30 major banks worldwide have taken positions that would make them off-limits for doing business with the state government. That includes six major U.S. banks.
Read MoreMy twin brother has slipped away after 67 years, which seems like a long time and yet not nearly enough.
Read MoreAlaska’s most radical legislators and Gov. Mike Dunleavy have signed onto the overthrow campaign by backing the idiotic lawsuit filed by a Texas politician who is fishing for a Trump pardon.
Read MoreThat Dunleavy would sign onto this nonsense is an embarrassment to Alaska.
Read MoreThe Trump administration moved Monday to make the entire 1.5-million-acre coastal plain available for leasing by oil companies, hoping to open the bids Jan. 6 and seal the fate of the Arctic refuge before Biden takes office.
Trump has made the proposed lease sale more legally, politically and financially vulnerable by cutting corners and creating openings for additional court challenges.
Dunleavy continues to claim that it’s not up to him to do anything about masks except recommend that people wear them. He has washed his hands of the matter.
Read MoreGov. Mike Dunleavy is wasting time arguing with local government officials when he should be leading. A statewide mask mandate is critical.
Read MoreDave Stieren, an anti-government government employee, is a regular fountain of misinformation about COVID-19. regularly spouting off with complete assurance even when he is delivering nonsense.
Read MoreAdministration Commissioner Kelly Tshibaka is complaining about the excessive costs of making public documents available to the public, portraying it as an unreasonable burden on a public official.
Read MoreIn public comments submitted to the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, Bob Penney’s group stands alone in supporting a plan by Gov. Mike Dunleavy to stop commercial fishing in federal waters of Cook Inlet.
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