The health committees of the Alaska Legislature should be investigating the repeated Dunleavy administration announcements about the analysis of privatizing the Alaska Psychiatric Institute that hasn’t happened.
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The lack of candor from the state on the mishandling of the dental program cancellation is indicative of a pattern of bungling that continues as the Dunleavy administration has provided the public with no plan on the consequences of its actions on Medicaid.
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There appears to be a connection with a lawsuit filed in July by an international company that objects to the local hire law in Alaska. Colaska, a subsidiary of Colas, a company that operates in more than 50 countries, claims the 33-year-old law is unconstitutional.
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Forget the old magazines, Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s office has directed state agencies to keep a big supply of a flyer touting his accomplishments on hand for the public.
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An Anchorage judge sided with state unions in the effort by the Gov. Mike Dunleavy and Attorney General Kevin Clarkson to make collecting union dues a harder chore for Alaska public employee unions. In a blistering order, Judge Greg Miller said there is no support for the state’s claims in any U.S. Supreme Court case.
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In a settlement of the lawsuit this week, the Dunleavy administration reversed the 7 percent cut for the first quarter of the fiscal year—effectively agreeing that the Medicaid emergency was an artifice.
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Gov. Mike Dunleavy would have the power to decide if AG Kevin Clarkson deserves free legal help. Clarkson, who owes his job to Dunleavy, would have the power to decide if Dunleavy or Lt. Gov. Kevin Meyer deserve fee legal help. It’s a perfect circle of power and conflict of interest.
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I make that claim because AIDEA’s leader, who approved the Clark Penney contract, admitted to board members that the work was not part of AIDEA and he wasn’t keeping track of Penney’s work. He thought the governor’s office was doing that.
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This is the second new state job for the Alaska Development Team that says the successful applicant must be “comfortable dealing with ambiguity” and have the “ability to work independently.”
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With four days left before Medicaid dental coverage is yanked, the state health commissioner refuses to say what dental services will qualify for Medicaid payment as of Tuesday at federally qualified health centers across Alaska.
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