I have no doubt that Murkowski is privately appalled by much of what Trump says, but in public she is a model of diplomacy toward the stable genius, a man she once said had forfeited the right to even be a nominee for president.
Read MoreThe Republican strategy adopted by Alaska's senators and others in the GOP is to pay as little attention as possible to Trumps's words—pretending they are not important—and to focus on what he does. This is the lowest standard for judging presidential behavior in our nation's history.
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Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan will probably express chagrin, regret and disagreement with the "shithole" stance of President Trump.
Read MoreThe Anchorage Daily News could do Alaskans a service by examining the folly of substituting wishful thinking for the work of nonpartisan professionals and claiming the two are identical.
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The Anchorage Daily News used its weekly editorial Sunday to endorse the giant Republican tax cut, relying on a string of questionable assertions to claim that the GOP disaster is good for the country.
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Companies publicizing one-time bonuses would rather that no one pay attention to just how small these are compared to higher profits from a permanent tax cut.
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The fight between GCI cable and the Georgia company that calls itself "Your Alaska Link" is irritating, with each side accusing the other of being from Outside and trying to rip off Alaskans.
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The former head of Trump University can't speak in complete sentences. He can't use the language to communicate any complex idea. He lies at will and babbles at length in ways that demonstrate his ignorance, bragging all the while like Kim Jong-un.
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GCI is pressuring customers to pressure the owner of Fox, ABC and CW stations to back off on rate hikes.
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I believe that Ice Alaska's handling of a $1.6 million state grant requires an immediate investigation and a state audit. It turns out that part of the audit work has already taken place.
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