Gov. Mike Dunleavy wants to pay a “senior advisor and strategist” about $295 an hour to tell him how to cut health care for poor people. But the state admits no background work has been done.
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The recall campaign is working. Think of it as part of the “fantastic feedback” that Gov. Mike Dunleavy says he is getting.
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The future of the next generation of Alaskans and those who will follow has been placed at risk by the reckless behavior of Gov. Mike Dunleavy—regardless of how he acts on the latest attempt by the Legislature to save the University of Alaska from his regime.
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This is one of the many short-sighted actions by Dunleavy, who vetoed $2.5 million approved by the Legislature to help purchase a complex array of nearly 100 earthquake stations. The equipment is going to be removed and Alaska is going to miss out.
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The inadequate justifications given to back up his capital budget vetoes will do one thing for Gov. Mike Dunleavy—inject more energy into his recall campaign.
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In what turned out to be his closing remarks as a state legislator last week, Anchorage Sen. Chris Birch gave what should be a lasting lesson about political leadership, compromise and how to make Alaska a better place.
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The governor, his temporary budget director and his health commissioner continue to treat all of this as a statistical game, adjusting numbers on paper without regard for what cutting health care by more than $100 million means to the lives of 216,000 Alaskans.
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The Dunleavy administration hopes that a new consultant will produce a report recommending privatization of the Alaska Psychiatric Institute, contradicting the conclusions of a 2017 consultant report.
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Gov. Mike Dunleavy, who promised no cuts to the Pioneer Homes, never mentioned his opposition to subsidizing old people when he was looking for votes in 2018. There is no analysis of the consequences of his plan for a record rate increase.
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Gov. Mike Dunleavy hopes Alaskans will forget everything he said as a candidate about his plans to make painless budget cuts of hundreds of millions that no one would notice.
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