Gov. Mike Dunleavy has made more promises about education than any politician in state history—most of them contradictory.
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Gov. Mike Dunleavy continues to bungle state education funding, which could force immediate layoffs of school district employees across the state in June. The governor now says that districts won’t get state money after July 15 because of a procedural fight.
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The latest in State Farm Insurance man Dick Randolph’s series of letters that he has nothing more to say about the Cole Brothers now compares us to his old friends Niccolo Machiavelli and Saul Alinsky.
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In seeking to eliminate funding for vacant VPSO positions, Dunleavy employs the circular argument that the positions are vacant and there is no need to appropriate money for vacant positions. He ought to be talking about what it would take to fill those positions.
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A one-month Medicaid study to prove the value of a one-page “concept paper” from Gov. Mike Dunleavy will be heavy on boilerplate and light on the real challenges to improving health care in Alaska.
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It was a political decision by the Dunleavy administration to accept higher levels of so-called PFAS pollution in drinking water, a move that generated internal opposition from scientists at the Department of Environmental Conservation and the Department of Health and Social Services.
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Clark Penney, one of many deputy treasurers of the Dunleavy campaign to get a job or a contract out of the administration, is to help develop new business in Alaska, which is No. 1 in every governor’s book of recycled campaign promises.
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Attorney General Kevin Clarkson mischaracterizes the origin of the forward-funding plan, suggesting that a year ago the Legislature was making an attempt to reduce the veto power of the next governor.
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The new promise is to not cut education spending at all in exchange for a legislative statement that Dunleavy deserves a procedural win. It’s hard to know which promise, if any, should be taken seriously.
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Access to health care is vital. The confidence of knowing that help will be available when needed is in stark contrast to that of many thousands of Alaskans on Medicaid, who stand to lose benefits under the Dunleavy plan to cut more than $700 million, including about $465 million in federal funds.
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The University of Alaska issued layoff notices to 48 human resources employees Monday, the first step in what UA President Jim Johnsen says will be a total makeover of its hiring offices statewide.
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Under the Dunleavy/Koch ideology, the state that has had the lowest taxes in the nation for decades should have long ago been overrun with new businesses. But the lowest taxes in the nation aren’t enough to overcome the complex conditions that inhibit the growth of new business in Alaska.
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