The social distancing and travel restrictions in Alaska have worked to hold down the number of cases and allow our relatively small health care facilities to keep from becoming overwhelmed. Anyone who thinks that continued success is guaranteed had better start to pay attention to what is happening Outside and around the world.
Read MoreIn this time of economic crisis in Alaska, Gov. Mike Dunleavy should stop paying $4,000 a month to Vought Strategies LLC, an Arlington, VA consulting company that is supposed to generate good publicity for the governor.
Read MoreHad a small federal tax been accepted by the cruise ship industry in 2017, it might be in a stronger position to lobby for a federal bailout in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read MoreA push by profit-making Alaska Native corporations for a big piece of the giant COVID-19 federal bailout has turned into a major controversy with Lower 48 Indian tribes.
Read MoreSenate President Cathy Giessel and Anchorage Sen. Natasha von Imhof are not the only ones asking if federal bailout money can be used to replaced items vetoed by Gov. Mike Dunleavy. It’s a good question.
Read MoreWe 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.
Read MoreWith 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.
Read MoreMurray 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.
Read MoreGov. 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.
Read MoreIt 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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