The most sensational claim about the leaky lagoon is that a former North Pole refinery supervisor fired a high-powered rifle at a piece of the plastic liner that floated to the surface in the lagoon. The employees referred to these plastic bubbles that rose above the water as “belugas.”
Read Moreit twists the “public record” law beyond recognition to claim it allows the Permanent Fund corporation to keep secret how much McKinley Capital Management of Anchorage and Barings, an international firm, will earn for investing $200 million in Alaska.
Read MoreGov. Mike Dunleavy, who has dropped the pretense that his anti-recall political group is independent, compares himself to President Trump and claims they both made the “fatal error” of helping average people, instead of “kowtowing” to special interests.
Read MoreHere is an idea that should unite the University of Alaska—faculty, staff, students, former chancellors and those who want a strong university system should start pressuring the UA regents to call out Gov. Mike Dunleavy for his reckless blackmail plan.
Read MoreHow much should the state pay Donna Arduin to become a temporary advisor? The right number is zero. She can give all the advice she wants as a volunteer, which would help shrink the government footprint that Dunleavy likes to talk so much about.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreThere 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.
Read MoreForget 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.
Read MoreAn 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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