In 2008, when Gov. Sarah Palin was in office, he wrote in a comment online: “The Bible’s pretty clear that women are not to be in authority over men.” He was not just talking about church.
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One likely explanation for Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s stubborn refusal to ask Alaskans to get vaccinated is that he is running for reelection and he doesn’t want to offend right-wing zealots like Charlie Pierce and Joel Davidson.
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When Dunleavy launched into his unreasonable North Korea strawman argument, he was responding to reasonable questions from two reporters about how the rising hospitalization numbers show that his “Get a vaccine if you want one” plan is failing.
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“If you’ve contemplated getting the vaccine.” “If you’re interested in the vaccine.” These are not the words of a governor confronting the crisis. These are not the words of a governor who understands that this has become a pandemic of the unvaccinated..
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Roberts quoted a long passage from an essay that says women cannot serve as pastors and be true to the Bible. And he said the reason for the ban is that Adam came before Eve. He said the “scripture is the best interpreter of itself” and listed other passages that back up his opinion.
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Among other things, Roberts has long considered himself an expert on freedom of speech, religion, education, families, and the proper roles of men and women in society. Feminism, he says, is a “rebellion against God.”
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Silva is running for the Borough Assembly in Fairbanks against Savannah Fletcher, who is the reasonable candidate in the race.
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A year ago the state Department of Transportation and Public Facilities had a new median constructed in Fairbanks along College Road from near Costco to Illinois Street, a project that made the road safer for all.
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A lot depends on the next 21 hours. It looks like if the governor puts an appropriation bill on the call for the special session by the close of business tomorrow (Wednesday), the Legislature might produce a big deal to address the State of Alaska’s structural deficit under current law. If the governor fails to do so, the Legislature could adjourn the special session soon—perhaps Monday, Aug. 23.
-By CLIFF GROH
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Alaskans deserve to see the full charges made against her, the unredacted report and the evidence that Tshibaka said vindicated her. In addition the candidate should release whatever report ODNI made after being advised to determine any appropriate disciplinary action. The report put a value of $36,000 on the disputed 596 hours. Tshibaka should reveal if she paid a fine or restitution.
The cornerstone of the Dunleavy plan is to get a constitutional amendment to cap state spending, keeping secret all details of what services would be reduced or eliminated to balance the budget. He’s not about to repeat the mistake he made in 2019 of specifying his plans to gut state government, which created the recall movement.
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Revenue Commissioner Lucinda Mahoney was either lying to legislators or lied to by Gov. Mike Dunleavy when she said that Dunleavy would support taxes if approved by the Legislature. He now says he won’t support any taxes approved by the Legislature without constitutional amendments to limit spending and require voter and legislative approval for taxes.
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Dunleavy is pitching his amendment as one that would spend half of the percent of market value on dividends, half on government services, and up to half on PCE. This is the 50/50/50 plan. He is counting on people who can’t count.
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An Anchorage judge soundly rejected the political justification created by Gov. Mike Dunleavy to stop Power Cost Equalization payments to more than 84,000 rural Alaskans faced with the most expensive electric rates in the country.
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The Legislature is not going to approve new taxes when the governor is saying it’s entirely up to the Legislature to take the lead.
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Most Alaska news organizations have failed to make it clear in their coverage of the issue that this was a policy/political decision by Dunleavy. Most have said that the Legislature failed to approve the funding, which is not true.
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The Alaska-Alberta railroad dream continues to fall apart. One of its chief “assets” is a decision announced on Twitter late one night last fall by former President Trump just after a $100,000-per-person fundraiser at which he was lobbied to push the project.
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In 2019, the Legislature blocked Dunleavy’s proposal to end the medical program, but the governor is again trying to end funding for the program through the policy decision he made on the so-called “sweep.”
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“We are literally a family that went from homeless to Harvard,” Kelly Tshibaka said. Four years before she was born, her parents spent a brief period in a tent in 1975 during a severe housing shortage in Anchorage. They were not homeless. They were camping.
He supports the idea of people getting vaccinated, he says, but he always follows that up by saying, “It’s your choice.”
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