It appears that Gov. Mike Dunleavy will leave office the same way he came in, claiming that avoiding new taxes and shrinking government is the way to make Alaska the most competitive state in the nation for new business.
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Gov. Mike Dunleavy has one more chance to propose a responsible state budget, which would end his seven-year streak of December recklessness.
He can continue as he has in the past, proposing a budget with a giant deficit of $1 billion, $2 billion or more, pretending that he is giving legislators and the public a realistic starting point instead of a political scam.
Or he can propose a balanced budget that takes the needs of the state into account and includes a Permanent Fund Dividend the state can afford. Paying for a dividend anywhere close to what Dunleavy claims he really wants would require new taxes, tax increases and lots of politically unpopular choices.
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Sen. Dan Sullivan, who is running for reelection, has absolutely nothing to say about Pete Hegseth and the military strikes on boats in the Caribbean, according to spokeswoman Amanda Coyne.
Coyne told Alaska’s News Source that Sullivan is “already working to get the full set of facts related to the boat strikes in Venezuela.”
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There’s another way of interpreting the gas pipeline presentation to legislators last month by GaffneyCline, the consulting company owned by a firm that is now working with Glenfarne on the pipeline project.
It’s not at all favorable to Glenfarne’s pipeline plans.
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Billionaire Mindy Hildebrand, wife of Hilcorp owner Jeff Hildebrand, answered questions in her confirmation hearing to be ambassador to Costa Rica by rephrasing them as declarative statements.
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The Alaska Legislature should ignore any and all advice from GaffneyCline on the gas pipeline because the consulting company has a conflict of interest—it is owned by a Texas firm that has just signed a deal to play a significant role in the pipeline project.
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Sen. Dan Sullivan is constitutionally incapable of even hinting that Donald Trump is wrong about anything.
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Temporary Attorney General Stephen Cox, 48, who says he moved to Alaska a few years ago to work as a general counsel, but didn’t join the Alaska Bar Association until last spring, is now lecturing a national audience in the Washington Post about the issues facing “states like mine.”
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Attorney General Stephen Cox is trying to hide from his reckless allegations against the Anchorage School District. And it appears that Education Commissioner Deena Bishop is also retreating in formation.
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Education Commissioner Bishop has either forgotten or is pretending to forget that she was the Anchorage superintendent in 2021 when the same complaint reached her about the same disclaimer on the same Hillsdale booklet.
She didn’t question the district’s loyalty to the Constitution then.
But she is now.
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