Both contracts would outsource state jobs under the guise that the pandemic makes these moves necessary. The plan would shift work now being done by state employees to private workers.
A Fox News host tried to toss a bewildered Trump a lifeline regarding his administration’s announcement approving oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Monday, but Trump didn’t recognize the name of the place.
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The three of them can’t find any reason to get angry at Trump for trying to limit voting by mail and force the post office into insolvency.
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I find the argument by Pastor Ron Hoffman about why he is breaking the municipal public health order impossible to swallow, but to be consistent he should give back the federal subsidy the church collected from the COVID-19 bailout and call it good.
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After my column on Bob Penney’s outsized role in the Dunleavy administration, I heard from numerous readers, including one who cited an exchange Penney had with a board member at a February meeting.
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As with so many other things during this year of political distancing, Alaska’s leading conversationalist couldn’t bring himself to say yes or no.
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The state press release version of the new COVID-19 testing policy for nonresidents disguises what really happened and tries to erase an incompetent decision announced one week before by Gov. Mike Dunleavy.
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Two years later it’s pretty clear that the Dunleavy administration has not forgotten what Bob Penney did to get Gov. Mike Dunleavy elected.
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Administration Commissioner Kelly Tshibaka is taking steps to shift more personnel management functions away from state employees and toward a private contractor, using the pandemic as an excuse.
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Sen. Dan Sullivan signaled his opposition two months ago to the continuation of the $600-per-week unemployment benefit beyond its July 31 expiration. He is now attacking Democrats for not extending it until Aug. 7.
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