Many legislators will oppose the Dunleavy plan to flunk third-graders who are not doing well in reading. The bill may be amended to strip this language and make flunking subject to parental approval.
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He portrays himself as an innocent bystander, waiting for Alaskans and the Legislature to decide what he should do next. But neither the Legislature nor the public will ever speak with a single voice on the complicated public policy choices that must be faced immediately.
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By calling for talk, not action, the governor is trying to shift all blame for the budget crisis to the Legislature, an institution incapable of doing the work required of the governor.
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After all the expenses are tallied in a few months, the final government services budget for the current fiscal year will show little change from the previous fiscal year.
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Weather-conscious attorneys for Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s group say a delay in gathering signatures wouldn’t harm the recall campaign because “signature-gathering is easier in April or May than in February.”
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The reading initiative was launched Wednesday at a press conference that featured everything except the text of the bill or details about what it contains.
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It would have been awkward for the consultant, Northern Economics, to mention Dunleavy’s campaign promises because he has abandoned everything he said regarding the ferry system when he was trolling for votes in 2018 in communities that rely on the blue canoes.
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Dunleavy says the court ruling on the recall is “problematic.” One big problem is his false claim that the decision from an Anchorage judge allows a recall for “any reason at all.”
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Perhaps Attorney General Kevin Clarkson low-balled the original deal at $50,000 because a legitimate cost estimate would have generated bad publicity about Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s big government footprint.
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Gov. Mike Dunleavy remains in full budget retreat mode because of the recall. He has included $2.5 million in his proposed budget for the next fiscal year to continue a vital earthquake monitoring project, reversing another one of his vetoes.
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