With diesel fuel at $6.66 a gallon in urban Alaska thanks to Trump’s war in Iran, Sen. Dan Sullivan is trying to salvage his reelection campaign by jumping on the Trump bandwagon to ban U.S. exports of diesel until the war ends.
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If Donald Trump makes good on his threat to “help” Sen. Dan Sullivan’s sagging fortunes by visiting Alaska on Bribe Force One, expect the same tired shtick from the old guy.
The Man of Gold will brag about himself, pause for a moment to lie that he won the 2020 election, then resume the boasting marathon.
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HOSPITAL CAMPAIGN: The tiny print on some new ads for Sen. Dan Sullivan featuring numerous shots of Fairbanks Memorial Hospital says that Steve Frank is not speaking for the hospital foundation when he speaks about the hospital. But most people won’t read or notice the fine print.
Frank is the treasurer of the Fairbanks Community Hospital Foundation and a loyal Sullivan supporter. Injecting the hospital into the Sullivan campaign is a mistake.
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If Kyle Reardon is confirmed as a federal judge for Alaska, every court decision that he will make during the rest of his life dealing with matters of the law, truth and fact—which means every one of them—will be have to be measured against his inability to tell the truth about the 2020 election while testifying before the U.S. Senate.
Read MoreThis is one of the best chances for voters to become more informed about the candidates and what they would like to do if they are elected on Tuesday October 6.
This is a real public service by the League of Women Voters, KUAC and the Daily News-Miner. It should be an example for public radio stations elsewhere and for Alaska Public Media to follow.
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For all of their many faults, they are not as uninformed and clueless as Bernadette Wilson, who is the clear frontrunner in that category. She is close to the top of the all-time register, a candidate for the Hall of Fame.
She leads the league in saying she has “bold ideas,” while never saying anything bold or coming up with with anything resembling an idea.
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I don’t care much about resolutions recognizing commemorative months, but the overreaction of school board candidate Jaimee Coon and assembly candidate Miguel Ramirez to this routine school board resolution recognizing LGBTQ month deserves a public discussion before the October 6th election.
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With the Kennedy Center in a Trump-induced collapse, Donna Arduin has left the building, abandoning her finance director’s job Tuesday with the institution’s finances a disaster.
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There weren’t 91 flawed financial disclosure statements out of 121 examined. We have no idea what the right number is because the state claims were based on shoddy research conducted in a day-and-a-half that was never checked.
There is plenty time now to go back, contact candidates and “verify every apparent match,” which is what any competent researcher would do.
This sham has unfairly damaged the reputation of every professional within the Department of Law.
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If you want to know what exactly what Jesus wants from political candidates, just ask Jim Minnery, the Anchorage politician who long had a habit of signing his communiques with “In His Name.”
Waving a flag in one hand and a cross in the other, Minnery excels at denouncing the forces of evil—nearly all of them Democrats—and spreading his blessing on the forces of decency—nearly all of them Republicans—under Donald Trump.
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