It should come as no surprise that the office of acting Attorney General Cori Mills, supplemented by the office of shadow attorney general Stephen Cox, had the staff available to find errors in 91 of 121 financial disclosure statements of candidates.
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It is improper to use the Senate letterhead for partisan correspondence and for "any campaign or campaign-related correspondence," according to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics.
But Sen. Dan Sullivan, who is running for a third six-year term and must know the rule, decided to violate it last week.
Read MoreFormer Attorney General Tregarrick Taylor, an off-again on-again candidate for governor, has a pronoun problem.
Upon learning that he is back on the ballot, Taylor complained that “they” kicked him off the ballot and “they” treated him unfairly.
“They” did not take Taylor off the ballot. And they did not put him back.
Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom did all that.
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The news coverage about Donald Trump’s alleged plan to visit Alaska to campaign for Sen. Dan Sullivan presented this information as if it was revealed by a man with full control of his faculties.
The news coverage concealed the context, which is that Trump made his so-called announcement after nearly 50 disjointed minutes of lies and half-truths about everything from the evil Canadians to his ballroom obsession, his beautiful helipad and how cheap gasoline was a year ago.
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Sen. Dan Sullivan is campaigning with wealthy Trump lackeys in Alaska, claiming that they are working together to lower energy costs.
What are you going to believe? The $4.94-per-gallon price at the gas pump in major Alaska cities? The electric bills in Interior Alaska that show the highest rates ever? The $5,000 bill that many homeowners are facing to fill up with heating oil?
Or the two white-haired rich guys boasting about “lowering costs” as they stride out of the Alaska Energy Authority to try to get votes, dressed in white shirts in their cute state-supplied embroidered black vests?
Read MoreI suspect that Candice English is going to be a candidate in name only.
It is more likely that English, who stepped into the Tregarrick Taylor void, will call on Republicans to support Bernadette Wilson alone or along with Dave Bronson.
That would create a three-way race with Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, Bronson and Wilson.
Read MoreThe remaining candidates for governor in Alaska are Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, Bernadette Wilson, Dave Bronson and maybe Candice English.
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The new board of the Fairbanks newspaper—the selection of which should require real community outreach—is going to have to wrestle with big questions such as whether the print publication should be ended entirely and how to improve its online presence and generate more revenue.
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Democrat Tom Begich ended his campaign for governor Friday and endorsed the Democratic leader Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, who shares many of the same political positions.
The decision to unify behind JKT increases the chances for the Democratic candidate in the November election.
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The experience of the past year-and-a-half points to a series of red flags that went unheeded by Alaskans.
The uncomfortable truth is that Glenfarne was never the right company to plan and execute one of the world’s largest construction projects.
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