Gov. Mike Dunleavy wants to decrease the state appropriation to the university by $134 million. That is a reduction of 41 percent in the portion of university funding that counts the most. This is the statistic that counts.
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Net job losses from the budget proposed by Gov. Mike Dunleavy could reach 12,800 in the short term. That’s the alarming conclusion of an Alaska economist who took a first look at the plan for drastic cuts in major social services across Alaska, including public schools, the University of Alaska, health care, the ferry system, and payments to poor old people.
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Maybe the $25,000 is a token of thanks for taking the first step to remove former Sen. Hollis French from the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. Or maybe it was a reminder to the governor that he has a billionaire friend in Texas.
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“I will be homeless without these payments,” a Kodiak resident wrote legislators in 2017. “At 66 years of age, retired from almost 20 years of commercial fishing due to disabilities, this is a terrifying prospect for me!”
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The attempt by the Dunleavy administration to turn over the Alaska Psychiatric Institute to a private company without competitive bidding deserves an independent investigation by the Legislature.
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He promised he would not cut the ferry system, education spending or the University of Alaska. He promised to spend more on rural education and repeatedly stressed that budget cuts would be aimed at making everything more efficient.
“While I understand the reluctance to compare Alaska to the lower 48, I am confident that in the lower 48 there are many examples of institutions that created a plan and successfully implemented a value proposition for higher education that attracted both students and non-state funding,” Mike Barnhill said.
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Senate President Cathy Giessel is repeating bogus talking points from the Republican Party, downplaying Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s attempt to dismantle the University of Alaska.
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Alaska is not an appropriate environment for the extreme right wing/hate government cookie cutter model the governor has imported.
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“I was tempted to say that was one of the most dishonest presentations I've ever seen anyone give to the Legislature. But that is an overstatement. To be charitable, I'll call it grossly incomplete.”
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