Gov. Mike Dunleavy is raising the stakes on his effort to attract media coverage Outside and trying to elevate his status in right-wing circles for his next campaign.
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Engineers and others with expertise in transportation in Fairbanks may ask the Dunleavy administration to halt its plan to allow snowmachines and ATVs on roads with speed limits of 45 mph or slower.
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Gov. Mike Dunleavy is making it a habit to try to stand tall on issues that appeal to his right-wing fans and carry zero political risk.
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A Dunleavy campaign donor or one of his friends probably came up with the idea, according to the former Public Safety Commissioner fired by Dunleavy, Amanda Price, and Dunleavy gave the go-ahead, opposing efforts by state officials who wanted to create a plan with public safety in mind.
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Dunleavy has never said publicly that he supports requiring driver’s licenses, registration and insurance for those who would drive snowmachines, ATVs, air-cushion vehicles and other all-purpose vehicles on roads. But the state claims that is the Dunleavy plan, made possible by changing a few words in state regulations.
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Since Kelly Tshibaka is making her expertise at saving the state money a central part of her argument for sending her to the U.S. Senate, Alaska news organizations should dig into the question of why she approved a plan last summer to pay a former barista $350 an hour—a total of $358,400 for six months.
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With her resignation Monday as administration commissioner and the official start of her U.S. Senate campaign, Kelly Tshibaka posted a letter to Gov. Mike Dunleavy that is at least 11 pages long, exaggerating how much she has saved the state.
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He can’t explain how he intends to fund state government starting in July 2022, so he can’t run for re-election on his fiscal record, but Dunleavy can appear to be a man of action by taking on the feds in court and talking tough—an Alaska wag-the-dog political stunt that never goes out of style.
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A nimble governor facing a budget crisis would recognize the political potential of the federal gift horse and adjust his plans accordingly.
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On Monday, the president of the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation upped the ante on Dunleavy’s gas pipeline dream, saying the state could aim for a subsidy of up to 100 percent to build the “first phase,” a $5.9 billion line to the outskirts of Fairbanks.
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The Exxon Valdez Oil Trust still exists, holding about $150 million, but the state and federal officials directing its future have fetched up hard aground—spending an inordinate amount of money on administrative expenses and apparently concluding that the best thing to do now is to spend the money as quickly as possible.
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I can’t imagine that Ben Stevens, then the chief of staff for Gov. Mike Dunleavy, had the power under state law to appoint someone to do the work of the attorney general. But that’s what happened in secret on July 31, 2020.
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That GCI is now a relatively small part of billionaire John Malone’s cable and tech empire is one reason why it is easier for the company to transfer jobs to the Philippines, a decision it would probably have never made when GCI was an Alaska company.
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But there comes a time when GCI, part of a corporate behemoth in which Alaska is not the main focus, stops imagining and starts making a better future for itself by shipping Alaska jobs to the Philippines, claiming it’s all about providing better service to Alaskans.
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In Fairbanks, the Dunleavy plan would open the likes of College Road, Airport Way, Geist Road and Van Horn Road to snowmachines, four-wheelers, garden tractors and tracked vehicles. What could go wrong?
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The surprising thing about Sen. Lora Reinbold is not that she doesn’t understand the first thing about the separation of powers in Alaska’s Constitution. It’s that she remains the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee after proving time and again that she is unfit for the position.
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Attorney General Treg Taylor offered an absurd explanation Monday for his failure and the failure of Gov. Mike Dunleavy to insist on protecting the state and requiring a public interest waiver for former Chief of Staff Ben Stevens.
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If there is a real budget strategy by the governor for the ferry system or anything else, it seems to be one in which he hopes to keep his head above water until after the 2022 gubernatorial election.
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There is a state law that says for two years after a state official leaves public office, that former official cannot work on certain issues. This protects the state. It’s not enough for the governor and a company that hires a state employee to announce, as Dunleavy and ConocoPhillips did, that there is nothing to see here.