What promises, if any, did the Air Force make to Sen. Dan Sullivan, who secretly put a hold on the nomination of the first African-American to lead a branch of the U.S. armed services?
Capstone Family Medicine, a business owned by Dr. Wade Erickson, has received at least four state contracts totaling more than $2.7 million. The total will grow following a decision announced last week to have Capstone screen incoming passengers at the Anchorage airport.
It is possible in politics to reply at great length to a direct question without giving an answer. We see that on a daily basis with President Trump and it is a practice that Gov. Mike Dunleavy follows all too frequently.
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Trump can’t help himself. He attacked Sen. Lisa Murkowski Thursday and said that he would campaign for anyone “good or bad” who would run against her. The episode proved once more than Mattis was right. Murkowski was right. And what Trump did was an insult to Alaska.
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No competent leader of the executive branch in Alaska would demand that every expenditure, no matter how small, must be described in a detailed memo that has to be approved by a commissioner and by OMB.
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Alaskans need to hear from Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan about the growing federal crisis and the dangerous behavior of President Trump, who is acting like a bomb thrower eager to create more carnage.
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Dunleavy clearly doesn’t want to say he is requiring anyone to do anything. He’d rather phrase it as a suggestion for political reasons. It’s a error that going to create confusion for travelers to Alaska.
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Tucker Carlson said Sens. Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski and seven other GOP senators should be “replaced by people who care about unemployed Americans.” But he took pains to say this should happen in GOP primaries, not in a general election.
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Every time I hear or see an ad from the group that calls itself “OneAlaska,” opposing the oil tax initiative, I am reminded that the most important part comes at the end: “Top three contributors are ConocoPhillips Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska, ExxonMobil, Anchorage, Alaska, and Hilcorp, Anchorage, Alaska.”
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It was exactly 100 years ago Tuesday that Presbyterian pastor Robert J. Diven wrote from Nenana about nonstop processions to the cemetery during one of the final deadly chapters of the flu pandemic that killed 50 million people worldwide.
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