If there is a reason to spend more money promoting development, it should not go to the duplicative DDT, but to the Alaska Regional Development Organizations that have been doing this work for many years. Some of them are struggling. The state stopped grants to them three years ago.
Read MoreThe 2020 Dunleavy plan for conversation will never lead to a miraculous moment when Alaskans speak with a unified voice about state services, taxes, the Permanent Fund Dividend or anything else.
Read MoreRather than say, “We screwed up,” the administration emitted an impenetrable bureaucratic fog, thicker than ice fog at 50 below, to obscure the reasons why it approved $100 per month in benefit cuts and then canceled the decision in little more than a week.
Read MoreWhile the Dunleavy administration appears to be trying to keep operational details about the development team quiet—the money for Penney’s contract was laundered through a state agency—the governor says the Alaska Development Team is one of his major accomplishments.
Read MoreI have heard directly from hundreds of readers across Alaska, as well as from some in the Lower 48, and want to thank you for your continued support and encouragement, even from those who disagree with my interpretation of events.
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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.
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