Republican candidates promoting completely unworkable schemes and giant Permanent Fund dividends are hardly conservatives. Many of those who did well against incumbent Republicans promoted some version of the fiscal fantasy that Gov. Mike Dunleavy championed in 2018.
Read MoreWith this bad legal advice, Dunleavy is free to keep insisting that there is no need for any unpopular statewide mandates on masks and crowds and commerce. Local governments can handle all unpopular mandates, allowing the governor to stay above the fray.
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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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreI 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.
Read MoreAfter 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.
Read MoreAs with so many other things during this year of political distancing, Alaska’s leading conversationalist couldn’t bring himself to say yes or no.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreTwo 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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