We need a plan from Gov. Mike Dunleavy that recognizes that some people are getting hit much harder than others, that resources are limited and the state needs to target what it does for maximum benefit. We need a fiscal plan.
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With the Alaska economy in serious trouble, this is the wrong moment for Gov. Mike Dunleavy to continue paying $600 an hour to Trump’s lawyers and to look to spend $900,000 more on contract lawyers.
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Murray Grand wrote hundreds of songs in his life, including one about Alaska, but "People don't walk down the street singing 'April in Fairbanks,"' he lamented.
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Gov. Mike Dunleavy skipped the Alaska Municipal League conference last fall so he could attend a GOP conference in Florida. As that Boca Raton meeting ended, the GOP governors association gave him $125,000 on Nov. 22 to fight the recall.
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It is stunning that Gov. Mike Dunleavy says he plans to use federal COVID-19 money to replace most of the things he has vetoed from the budget, instead of using bailout funds to deal with the COVID-19 health and economic crisis.
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Allowing AIDEA to loosen all regulations about interest rates, costs, fees and financing terms is an extreme measure, one that the authority has not justified. It would make far more sense to put limits on this power and to require AIDEA executive director Tom Boutin to explain what he has in mind.
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The idea of working with the Florida Virtual School did not come about in response to the COVID-19 health crisis that forced school buildings to close or because of a suggestion last fall from former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. The state was looking at the Florida model a year ago.
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The state budget for the fiscal year that begins in July is not sustainable. But it is a measured response to the crisis facing our state and it leaves room for the Legislature to do more depending upon what happens in the next few months.
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Education Commissioner Michael Johnson didn’t tell school districts about the new Alaska Statewide Virtual School, a partnership with the Florida Virtual School, until it opened.
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“The next 2-4 weeks are a critical time for us. The more we limit the spread, the fewer people become critically ill, and the fewer people die.”
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