It was 35 below when John Binkley pulled out of Prudhoe Bay on a BMW 750cc at 8:30 a.m. on December 2, 1975. He was there to begin an expedition that would take him to the southern tip of South America in 142 days.
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Aaron C. Peterson, who is in line for a lifetime appointment as the next federal judge in Alaska, can’t muster the political courage to admit that Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election.
This doesn’t bode well for his ability to tell the truth or defend the rule of law.
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Dunleavy promised to reveal a secret fiscal plan in January, a scheme that includes no income tax, no sales tax, no increase in oil taxes, no increase in mining taxes, no increase in fish taxes, no nothing. He suggests that businesses that don’t exist yet will somehow fill the gap.
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Sen. Dan Sullivan, Rep. Nick the Third and Gov. Mike Dunleavy should take it upon themselves to read the latest Trump epistle aloud to Alaskans. And after they’ve done that they can say that they believe that Donald Trump can be trusted with America’s nuclear weapons.
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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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