What USA Today readers did not learn from the column is that a court order has placed an indefinite hold on the Dunleavy-Clarkson anti-union crusade, a disclosure that was withheld from the propaganda piece.
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Commissioner of Administration Kelly Tshibaka takes me to task over my blog post Sunday about the work that a brand new Seattle company, which registered in Alaska in October, is doing for the state.
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Gov. Mike Dunleavy submitted a short video to the meeting of local government leaders in Alaska, portraying himself as a guy with great hearing. It took him a long time to start listening.
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It’s not clear how much the state is paying Tandem Motion, why it was chosen, apparently on a sole-source contract, or what the full scope of work is. I have made two requests to the department for a copy of the contract and received no reply.
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When he communicates to right-wing organizations both in Alaska and Outside, Gov. Mike Dunleavy strikes a combative tone and blames the budget uproar he created this year on special interests in Alaska who “want government to be big.”
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One giant question Alaska needs to have answered regarding the BP-Hilcorp sale is whether the eventual dismantling of the trans-Alaska pipeline will now be governed by what we’ll call the Unocal plan, which is to avoid all responsibility for the task by selling out, unloading the obligation on the remaining owners.
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The Big 3 owners of the trans-Alaska pipeline told the Texas Supreme Court that a ruling allowing Unocal to unload its 1.3 percent share of the pipeline without paying for future removal costs, “strongly incentivizes the remaining owners to end TAPS operations to ensure that no one else can try to walk out on their DR&R obligation for free.”
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Attorney General Kevin Clarkson and Lt. Gov. Kevin Meyer have signed off on a distorted summary of the oil tax initiative, claiming that the word “and” means “or.”
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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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