Dunleavy is comfortable attacking President Biden and big spenders in Washington, D.C., but he is not at all comfortable in admitting that his pipeline dream depends upon the cooperation of Biden and the big spenders in D.C. to provide a subsidy of $4.5 billion.
Read MoreConocoPhillips wants Alaskans to believe Stevens will be the George Costanza of Alaska’s oil company for the next two years. It doesn’t pass the smell test to believe that Stevens will be cutting ribbons, handing out checks to charities, talking about the weather and never mentioning what levers to pull to defend Conoco's interests in Juneau.
Read MoreBrett Huber, former campaign manager and aide to Gov. Mike Dunleavy, testified under oath last fall that he was serving as a volunteer in the effort to defeat the initiative to reform the election process in Alaska.
Read MoreThe unmentionable objectionables need to be identified by Murkowski and Sullivan, lest it be revealed that this was not at all about specifics, but the blanket wall of opposition built by Republicans.
Read MoreThe most important slide of all was missing from the package of eight slides presented to the Senate Transportation Committee by Administration Commissioner Kelly Tshibaka—the one that detailed the increased costs to consumers by privatizing six offices of the Division of Motor Vehicles.
Read MoreIt appears Lucinda Mahoney is more interested in holding the job of revenue commissioner than in doing the work of the revenue commissioner. She almost told the House Finance Committee the truth about the disastrous impact of Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s failure to offer a fiscal plan.
Read MoreWhat happens when a judge who believes in the strict interpretation of the Constitution encounters someone who believes in a stricter interpretation? Time for the Shower scale.
Read MoreThe Dunleavy administration’s appeal of the Pebble Mine permit denial was a farce, a grandstanding appeal for publicity. Reporters never bothered to read the regulations that clearly prohibited the state from appealing the decision because it was not the applicant.
Read MoreRep. Don Young’s staff, writing for the 87-year-old Congressman on social media, deceived Alaskans by making it appear that Young was present in the U.S. House to oppose the latest COVID bailout bill when he was really missing in action.
Read MoreThe law creating the fund is designed to promote loans and loan guarantees to finance infrastructure development, but AIDEA has decided to go far beyond such activities, bypassing legislative review of items that should have been in the capital budget and debated in public.
Read MoreNeera Tanden's Mean Tweet directed at Sen. Lisa Murkowski more than three years ago was as accurate as the Positive Tweet that Tanden aimed at her earlier that year for a vote that helped save health care for millions.
Read MoreThe connections between Ben Stevens and ConocoPhillips that emerged from the Veco corruption trials should not be forgotten.
Read MoreIn each of the next three years, the Dunleavy administration wants to cut pay for about 2,000 supervisors by 2 percent, according to an update on contract negotiations distributed by the Alaska Public Employees Association.
Read MoreSen. Mike Shower and all of those clamoring to put more politics in the judicial selection process should remember that with a different governor and Legislature, making the judiciary subject to the political whims of elected officials would suddenly lose all of its appeal.
Read More“Talking about weapons. I happened to serve during Korea,” Rep. Don Young said. “And I was well trained in how to kill somebody with my hands.”
Read MoreThe Republican Senate Caucus of Equals is controlled by a Cavalcade of Crackpots. Sen. Lora Reinbold continues to reign, specializing in nonsense, lies and conspiracy theories.
Read MoreIf Attorney General Treg Taylor is unaware of these details in the handling of the Clark Penney no-bid contract or simply willing to overlook them to help his boss, he doesn’t deserve to be attorney general and should be rejected by the Legislature.
Read MoreLet’s not fool ourselves. Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s vision of Alaska “self-reliance” on the and his call to “think big” about the gas pipeline would be courtesy of the red, white and blue.
Read MoreThe gas pipeline dream promoted by Gov. Mike Dunleavy would be a federal public works project unlike anything in Alaska history. As an opponent of big government, he’s trying to downplay the enormous federal subsidy.
Read MoreA year ago, Gov. Dunleavy said this about the Clark Penney contract: “To answer your question, we’re looking into all of the details surrounding that contract and other contracts. And once we are finished with our deep dive, we will come out and we will have a presser on it.” The long-promised “presser” (press conference) never happened.
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