The contract should not be awarded. If the state wants to pursue this case, it should do so with state lawyers already on the payroll who do no charge the Alaska discount of $600 an hour.
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Dunleavy would never give this synopsis of what he claims happened in Alaska after the 2014 oil price crash to an informed audience in Alaska as it would be immediately recognized as a lie.
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The winter sun doesn’t attract the glory of summer’s all-night show, but the nature of the low-angled December light—tinting the landscape with a soft glow—is a case of quality instead of quantity.
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The Dunleavy administration is trying again to shut down the Havemeister family dairy farm near Palmer by ending the state inspection program required to sell milk on the commercial market. It’s still a bad idea.
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Dunleavy’s budget envisions a deficit in the fiscal year that starts next July of about $170,000 an hour, which is $4 million per day, about $120 million a month and about $1.5 billion a year. By October 2021, all savings except the Permanent Fund would be gone.
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After vetoing adult dental coverage for Medicaid recipients in June and again in August—rejecting the near universal testimony from health care experts—Gov. Mike Dunleavy has now signed off on a plan to resurrect coverage in January.
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Under the latest plan, the team would be funded by $2.8 million to be withdrawn from a state loan fund for aviation equipment, a fund managed by the commerce department that is soon to be shut down.
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The Dunleavy administration has offered an unbelievable account about the sequence of events and the timing of the decision to cut benefits for the poor, blind, disabled or old, followed by the reversal of that plan after the public began to learn about it.
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This seems to be a bit of wishful thinking on the part of DEC Commissioner Jason Brune, who told the Resource Development Council in March that eliminating the Ocean Ranger program was “near and dear to my heart.” The Legislature refused to give him his heart’s desire.
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Gov. Mike Dunleavy introduced a reckless budget Wednesday afternoon in Juneau, one that would leave the state with no savings except the Permanent Fund by October 2021, then he ducked out of his own press conference.
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