The promoters of the Pebble Mine sent a draft letter to Dunleavy, asking that he contact a potential investor who might be scared off by a letter from the Natural Resources Defense Council. Weeks later, the governor’s spokesman said he did not know how the NRDC letter came to Dunleavy’s attention.
Dunleavy likes to say he supports the Pebble process, not necessarily the mine. That would come as a big surprise to the mine proponents, who see him as the tallest member of the pro-Pebble team.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreDunleavy 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreDunleavy’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.
Read MoreAfter 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.
Read MoreUnder the latest plan, the team would be funded by $2.8 million to be withdrawn from a state loan fund for aviation equipment, a fund managed by the commerce department that is soon to be shut down.
Read MoreThe 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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