The battle comes down to this: Dunleavy wants to pay hundreds of millions more in Permanent Fund dividends and he doesn’t want any tax increases or new taxes. What he wants to do is cut a wide array of state and local services and claim he has no choice. That’s not true. He has made the wrong choices.
Read More“With a $134 million cut, UA would have no choice but to immediately eliminate academic programs mid-stream, along with about 1,500 faculty and staff that support students in those programs,” UA President Jim Johnsen said.
Read MoreDunleavy has no explanation for the massive cut, other than the same weak excuse given for every budget cut from the ferry system to public broadcasting and health care—the state has no money and he opposes taxes.
Read MoreOn Saturday, Trump returned to another version of the ANWR creation story at the Conservative Political Action Conference in a two-hour talk-a-thon. Any poor man who gave that performance on a street corner would be hustled off to counseling.
Read MoreThe false claim fits the unfortunate pattern of the Dunleavy administration in misusing statistics to promote its radical attack on K-12 public schools and the University of Alaska.
Read MoreThe new argument from Republican mouthpiece Suzanne Downing, which echoes what economist Ed King of the Dunleavy administration has said before, is that North Slope oil production is increasing even though it is decreasing. So oil is down, but it’s up, a Jedi mind trick.
Read MoreGov. Mike Dunleavy should cease and desist with his plan to start charging some Pioneer Home residents $15,000 a month. The regulations now in the works for this bone-headed move should be canceled by the governor.
Read MoreI think it was a bad move by Fairbanks Mayor Jim Matherly, made with one eye on his re-election campaign.
Read MoreAnchorage Sen. Tom Begich has proposed what he is calling a “real budget plan.” While it is not the Dunleavy disaster, it is also not realistic. An income tax is needed.
Read MoreThere is nothing immoral, unconstitutional, reprehensible or destructive about taxes. They are a way to provide and preserve livable communities.
By Larry Persily
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