Alaska leaders need to discuss climate change, ignore uninformed politicians

In a forum in September with his Democratic challenger, Rep. Scott Kawasaki, Sen. Pete Kelly made a series of uninformed and false statements in trying to back up his claim that climate change science is a scam.

Dermot ColeOctober 15, 2018 Comments

Don Young’s Outside backers vote for him with their money

“See, and that is what I call, Mr. Chairman, a bullshit answer. Military service,” Rep. Don Young said.

Dermot ColeOctober 12, 2018 Comments

National GOP group dumps $2.7 million into Alaska for Dunleavy

The campaign group masquerading as “Families for Alaska’s Future-Dunleavy” has no real connection to Alaska or its families.

Dermot ColeOctober 10, 2018 Comment

GOP response to Murkowski shows why most Alaska voters are independent

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.

Dermot ColeOctober 8, 2018 Comments

Sullivan retreats to weasel words on Kavanaugh investigation

If 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.

Dermot ColeSeptember 29, 2018 Comments

Mueller called Don Young 'crook,' according to Bob Woodward's Trump book

Some 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.

Dermot ColeSeptember 28, 2018 Comments

Vogler would have denounced anyone saying he was 'explicitly a secessionist'

While 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.

Dermot ColeSeptember 20, 2018 Comments

Dunleavy sees regional boarding schools replacing small village schools

Alaska 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.

Dermot ColeSeptember 19, 2018 Comments

As Senate leader, Pete Kelly backed major funding cutbacks for university

Sen. 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.

Dermot ColeSeptember 18, 2018 Comments

Dunleavy repeats claim that imaginary state slush fund could be used for Troopers

In 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.

Dermot ColeSeptember 17, 2018 Comments