It’s a sign that Dunleavy had trouble packing the list with a cross-section of the populace, which is what campaigns hope for, not a collection of people who owe their paychecks to him.
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Deaths have become a daily ritual as the virus sweeps through the community. Outside the hospital walls, many people pretend there is nothing alarming happening. But inside the hospital, patients are struggling to breathe.
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Fairbanks right-wing assembly candidate Lance Roberts says that wearing a mask is against God's law. It’s more along the lines of “No shirt, no shoes, no service.”
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Wearing masks is not hazardous to your health, despite what Fairbanks Borough Assembly candidates Patricia Silva and Lance Roberts claim.
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Everyone in Alaska with any influence—starting with the governor and all elected officials—should be insisting that Alaskans get vaccinated now. But Dunleavy continues to send an unmistakable political signal to his anti-vaccination fans that he won’t press them.
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“This is something that while we don’t have a great treatment once you get COVID, we do have a treatment for this disease—and that’s a vaccine and wearing a mask.”
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Lance Roberts, an engineer at GVEA, makes it a habit to claim he is being attacked for his faith when he is questioned about his politics and his opinions about history, society, the economy and how others should live.
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Prax should provide a list of government services he wants to stop providing, but he won’t do that because he either has no clue or he is afraid of the public response.
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With a revision filed with the Alaska Public Offices Commission Monday, Building Alaska says that 51.66 percent of its donations are from Alaska and 48.34 percent are from Mike Baker, the Illinois resident.
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The ad should say that backers of the group saying “help us elect a conservative” assembly can’t vote in Fairbanks and most of the money is from Illinois.
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One sign that whoever wrote the piece did so by relying on a faulty memory is the assertion that the 90-day session limit was “overwhelmingly mandated by voters in 2006. . .”
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Our governor, mayors, legislators and other elected officials are not doing near enough to deal with the clear and present danger facing the state.
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Fairbanks should not accept the Binkley plan under any circumstances and should demand full representation, not a reduction of one-quarter of a House seat, which would mean less influence in the Legislature.
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.Dunleavy’s unvaccinated fanbase will turn on him if he delivers a clear message about Alaskans getting sicker by the day and filling up the hospitals because they refused the vaccination.
When Alaska Attorney General Tregarrick Taylor wrings his hands and moans that he can’t possibly appeal a major case because there is “no certainty of success” and the case may drag on for months or years and waste money, rest assured he is lying. He dropped the case because it will help the finances of Dunleavy’s reelection campaign.
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Motivational speaker and borough assembly candidate Patricia Silva is back to spreading lies about her opponent and others who don’t share her conspiratorial attitudes about everyone from the Queen of England to President Joe Biden.
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Longstanding practices and policies have left us with tens of billions in added savings not recognized by the 50/50 crowd. The Permanent Fund could keep taxes low permanently and preserve state services, but only if we act wisely and ignore the Dunleavy desire to overspend billions.
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The sensible decision on school masks in Fairbanks will likely be reversed, regardless of the health emergency, if right-ring school board candidates Jeffrey Rentzel and Andrew Graham are elected Oct. 5. Both continue to make exaggerated and false claims about mask “tyranny” and “torture.”
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If the Permanent Fund is allowed to grow to $100 billion or more, it would allow Alaskans to maintain a healthy level of state services and keep state taxes low. That is the conservative choice for Alaska. What Dunleavy and right-wing Republicans are promoting is reckless.
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What Roberts is doing on the state Local Boundary Commission may make it impossible in the future for any local government in Alaska to amend its boundaries and add territory by annexation. This is because voters in an area to be annexed, who don’t pay the cost of local government, are not going to volunteer to pay taxes for services they already get for free.
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