In trying to justify his approval of a no-bid $441,000 state contract to a fellow Dunleavy loyalist, Tomas Boutin, CEO of the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, claims there was no need to waste time with competitive bids.
Read MoreAlmost everything about the decision is being withheld from the public, with Dunleavy claiming “executive communications privilege” as a justification for secrecy. The release of emails that are empty except for the salutations and closings makes a mockery of the public process.
Read MoreIf Mike really wants to run ads attacking those he is supposed to work with, he should call up his brother in Texas and have Francis spend hundreds of thousands on image ads, trying to rehabilitate what’s gone wrong with the Dunleavy administration in its first six months.
Read MoreGov. Mike Dunleavy has made more promises about education than any politician in state history—most of them contradictory.
Read MoreGov. Mike Dunleavy continues to bungle state education funding, which could force immediate layoffs of school district employees across the state in June. The governor now says that districts won’t get state money after July 15 because of a procedural fight.
Read MoreThe latest in State Farm Insurance man Dick Randolph’s series of letters that he has nothing more to say about the Cole Brothers now compares us to his old friends Niccolo Machiavelli and Saul Alinsky.
Read MoreIn seeking to eliminate funding for vacant VPSO positions, Dunleavy employs the circular argument that the positions are vacant and there is no need to appropriate money for vacant positions. He ought to be talking about what it would take to fill those positions.
Read MoreA one-month Medicaid study to prove the value of a one-page “concept paper” from Gov. Mike Dunleavy will be heavy on boilerplate and light on the real challenges to improving health care in Alaska.
Read MoreIt was a political decision by the Dunleavy administration to accept higher levels of so-called PFAS pollution in drinking water, a move that generated internal opposition from scientists at the Department of Environmental Conservation and the Department of Health and Social Services.
Read MoreClark Penney, one of many deputy treasurers of the Dunleavy campaign to get a job or a contract out of the administration, is to help develop new business in Alaska, which is No. 1 in every governor’s book of recycled campaign promises.
Read MoreAttorney General Kevin Clarkson mischaracterizes the origin of the forward-funding plan, suggesting that a year ago the Legislature was making an attempt to reduce the veto power of the next governor.
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