The boilerplate language is significant in this instance because there is a real possibility that the Legislature will make a sensible decision and refuse to appropriate the $500,000 to $600,000 promised to the recipient of the contract.
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“She hates me,” Trump said of Sen. Lisa Murkowski. “I kind of like her but she really doesn’t like me. We do so much for Alaska you’d think we’d get her vote for something one of these days.”
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It is possible that Gov. Mike Dunleavy will try to raise taxes, as Revenue Commissioner Bruce Tangeman suggests, as that might be the only way in which Dunleavy survives and finds some path to increase the Permanent Fund Dividend without slashing state services.
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The Anchorage Daily News published a piece by former South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint in which he shares his great and unmatched wisdom about the Alaska recall effort.
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In the letter to legislative leaders explaining what work is being done or will be done on the BP-Hilcorp sale, Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Corri Feige includes a mistake about federal actions regarding the BP-ARCO merger in 2000.
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The revelation is enough to justify public hearings by the Legislature and belatedly involve Alaskans in the debate about the BP sale to Hilcorp announced on Aug. 27.
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The silence from the Dunleavy administration about the BP $5.6 billion sale to Hilcorp is alarming. Where is the report informing Alaskans about the public policy questions related to taxes, maintenance and the future of the pipeline?
Read More“It was a life based on service, not on the accumulation of money. America needs more people like that.”
—By Steve Cowper
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JB Carnahan was a Fairbanks fixture for nearly a half-century—a policeman, borough assembly member, Shriner, volunteer, Crimestoppers TV spokesman, businessman and one of the morning hosts on KIAK-FM.
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Gov. Mike Dunleavy continues to be the governor of the education promise, abandoning one pledge after another depending upon the conditions of the moment and the audience, always acting as if he is not contradicted himself.
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