GOP Chairman Tuckerman Babcock’s letter is accompanied by dishonest instructions telling Alaska voters they must be members of a political party to vote absentee.
Read MoreIf Sen. Dan Sullivan really believed that any allegation of sexual assault needs to be taken seriously, he would not have to retreat to weasel words about the FBI investigation. This was not an inspired choice on his part.
Read MoreSome years ago, when attorney John Dowd told FBI Director Robert Mueller he was representing Rep. Don Young, the FBI director said, “That crook?” according to Bob Woodward’s book on Trump.
Read MoreWhile his rhetoric grew more and more hostile to the United States government over the years, Joe Vogler kept claiming that he did not want to secede because that would be illegal.
Read MoreAlaska gubernatorial candidate Mike Dunleavy has not gone into detail on his idea of closing small high schools and opening regional boarding schools in hub communities. Giving wide attention to this proposal would touch off arguments throughout rural Alaska.
Read MoreSen. Pete Kelly deserves most of the credit for putting a 2014 financing plan together to fund the power plant project at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He also deserves a big part of the blame for a catastrophic decline in state funding for higher education.
Read MoreIn a story on how the three crime-fighting candidates for governor intend to pay for expanded public safety operations, the Anchorage Daily News allowed Mike Dunleavy to get away with his fiction about thousands of ghost positions in the state budget.
Read MoreYou don’t have to be a political scientist to understand that ConocoPhillips would love to have one of its employees in the executive branch in Alaska. Its presentation, which excluded risk factors and qualifiers that must be made when anyone talks about billions of dollars that have yet to be committed by a wide range companies, should be interpreted in that light.
Read MoreMark Begich seems to be unaware of the progress made over the last couple of years in advancing the public discussion of the state’s fiscal problem. A lot of the credit for that progress goes to Gov. Bill Walker, and the coalition of Democrats and Republicans who led the House.
Read MoreFormer Sen. Mark Begich is right that former Sen. Mike Dunleavy’s portrayal of Iceland as the model for Alaska leaves out the inconvenient truth of taxes.
Read MoreIt was almost as if the legislative witness from ConocoPhillips was there to help the campaign of fellow ConocoPhillips employee Kevin Meyer, a candidate for lieutenant governor in Alaska.
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