The state-funded “FirstHand” podcast quoted DMV bashing from a company owned by the family of Commissioner Adam Crum before Commissioner of Administration Paula Vrana steered the conversation back to safe territory and praised the contractor.
Read MoreFollowing the maxim that things like this never happen by accident, the four-year Senate terms all go to incumbents who are members of the Dunleavy fan club, while his Republican critics will get two-year terms.
Read MoreThe low vaccination rates are probably due to a combination of factors, including propaganda, right-wing extremists, weak news coverage and a failure of local and statewide leadership.
Read MoreThe grandstanding governor has ordered the Alaska State Troopers and all other state entities to refuse to cooperate with FBI efforts to monitor threats of violence against school officials. That Alaska law enforcement should be monitoring such threats goes without saying, but this is not about good public policy.
Read MoreThe Rev. Kelly Tshibaka has spent her entire professional career in Washington, D.C., except for the two years she and her husband worked in the Dunleavy administration, establishing residency in Alaska for her Senate run.
Read MoreIn the Fairbanks area, the Republican-controlled redistricting board has produced a partisan ma aimed at diluting the Democratic vote in the Goldstream area and on the west side of the community.
Read More“This actually gives Eagle River the opportunity for more representation. They’re certainly not going to be disenfranchised by this process,” Bethany Marcum said Monday of her disputed plan to boost the political standing of Eagle River, words that she probably regrets saying in a public forum.
Read More“Perhaps Governor Dunleavy is unaware that Alaska law mandates each school student in Alaska, unless exempted, be vaccinated for diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, chickenpox, and Haemophilus influenza type B. It’s a total of seven vaccines, some of them involving as many as three shots. And they work; those diseases are pretty much eradicated in Alaska schools as a consequence of that set of immunization requirements.”
—From the Wickersham’s Conscience blog
Read MoreJason Brune, commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation, has been falsely claiming for more than two years that the cruise ship monitoring program created by Alaska voters has been eliminated. It still exists, but the Dunleavy administration has chosen to ignore the law.
Read MoreClueless Commonwealth North doesn’t understand that this is no time to be handing out a leadership award to Gov. Mike Dunleavy for dealing with COVID-19. The only people who deserve awards are the doctors, nurses, administrators and support staff members at our hospitals and clinics, struggling with a pandemic that was made worse by a lack of state leadership.
Read MoreThe news coverage of the oil price and production guesses fails to make clear that the state computes its guesses in a way that no private company, no investor, no utility, no agency, no economist and no competent person would use.
Read MoreThe Anchorage Daily News and Alaska Public Media published news accounts Monday that failed to make this clear. They sanitized Bronson’s secret role and failed to dig into the conflicting claims about it.
Read MoreAnchorage Mayor Dave Bronson said he “didn’t want his fingerprints” on the so-called “early treatment summit” held in Anchorage Saturday at Changepoint church, so he concealed the role played by his administration in setting up the event. In effect, he lied to the public.
Read MoreIn a pre-election sermon last spring, the pastor of the Anchorage Baptist Temple denounced and ridiculed Forrest Dunbar, while endorsing Dave Bronson. The camera cut to Bronson in the audience as the pastor praised his political positions.
Read MoreThe question arises because Prevo’s attempt to do at Liberty University in Virginia what he did in Anchorage—use a tax-free institution to boost the fortunes of elect right-wing candidates—is now at the center of a lawsuit filed by a fired senior vice president at Liberty. Scott Lamb was the spokesman for the university.
Read MoreI’m surprised that Tshibaka is still repeating this humble brag, perhaps expecting that Alaska news organizations will continue to do no real news ncoverage of her campaign.
Read More“I never intended for state resources to support their a partisan political purpose,” Dunleavy said a year ago, adding that his staff would undergo “the appropriate ethics training.” There are plenty of signs he is still using state resources for partisan political purposes, including the new state-funded campaign podcast he started Monday.
Read MoreThe pro and anti Zaletel partisans seem to be talking about two different women, two different members of the Anchorage Assembly.
—By Michael Carey
Read MoreThe governor and his allies in the Legislature will soon be saying that oil prices have solved all of the state’s financial problems once again, avoiding the political risk in tax talk. But oil prices have not solved all of the state’s financial problems.
Read MoreWith the lack of diversity represented by Dunleavy/Meyer, someone other than Meyer is likely to take on the task of guarding the state seal and saying that Dunleavy is doing a great job.
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