At the Dunleavy COVID-19 show Tuesday, the governor’s office banned participation by Anchorage Daily News reporter Kyle Hopkins, fearing that he would ask Dunleavy about when he first learned about Kevin Clarkson’s 558 text messages to a low-level state employee half his age.
Read MoreTwo of the high earners on the Tandem Motion list of workers earned master’s degrees this year, but one was working as a barista in Washington in 2018 and another was working as a “boat mate” in Florida for the first seven months of 2018.
Read MoreThe Tandem Motion contract illegally transfers work that should be conducted in Alaska by state employees to a Seattle company and the contract should be cancelled, the Alaska Public Employees Association charges.
Read MoreUnder terms of the Dunleavy plan to outsource state personnel management work to a small Seattle company, eight people—some of them with limited professional experience—are in line to collect more than $200,000 each for working six months.
Read MoreThe former general would have Alaskans believe that his real concern was not with preserving his carcass, but in protecting the identity of the young woman, half his age, on the receiving end of 558 of his text messages.
Read MoreThe story shouldn’t end with Clarkson’s resignation. The actions and inaction of Gov. Mike Dunleavy deserve examination. The biggest questions are why Dunleavy kept Clarkson’s suspension a secret and why he wasn’t fired months ago.
Read MoreCara Griffith of Seattle, who last year worked as a subcontractor and a volunteer for the state, is to make $500 an hour under the Dunleavy plan to outsource state jobs, collecting $532,000 over the next six months.
Read MoreThe real record of the past 18 months shows that the campaign to put the Alaska Psychiatric Institute in private hands with a no-bid contract was flawed from the start, driven by ideology. The Dunleavy administration has wasted money and time hiding its mistakes. And no one has been held accountable..
Read MoreThe handling of the proposed state contract by the Department of Administration with Tandem Motion makes a mockery of the state procurement process.
Read MoreFor the Alaska Congressional delegation, the bypass mail program is among the most treasured features of federal policy. Trump’s postmaster general blindsided them with his plan to eliminate the program.
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