Judge Susan Carney is under attack from right-wing extremists who claim that because they disagree with her on a few cases, she should be removed from the court, ignoring the weight of evidence that shows she has been a first-rate and even-handed member of the Alaska Supreme Court.
Read MoreThe state is well on its way to wasting $700,000 on an ideological dream pitched by Kevin Clarkson, hiring Trump’s lawyer at $600 an hour to get an anti-union crusade to the U.S. Supreme Court. Acting Attorney General Clyde “Ed” Sniffen should cancel the contract now.
Read MoreAlaska Native corporations, many of which do business with the oil companies, hired a right-wing group in Washington, D.C. to produce an “independent study,” which is a smart business tactic. But it’s not independent and it’s not a study.
Read MoreA Lower 48 study about tax rates and the impact on oil wells drilled within 5 miles or 10 miles of a state line is hardly a solid foundation for a reasonable review of Ballot Measure No. 1, but the oil industry is making that claim.
Read MoreBallot Measure No. 1, at today’s oil prices, will have a limited impact on taxes. Its most important feature, given current conditions, is to raise the minimum tax from 4 percent to 10 percent. That is a reasonable increase. And any fiscal plan that works for Alaska has to include an oil tax increase.
Read More.Nearly all of the money fighting the initiative is from four companies, but OneAlaska markets itself as a mom and pop enterprise created only to unify Alaskans and support their jobs, with no interest at all in what benefits corporate leaders in Houston and major stockholders who could never find Alaska on a map.
Read MoreThe former governor and the former senator have only given $250 each to the opposition to Ballot Measure No 2, but they allowed false radio ads to be broadcast for weeks claiming they were two of the big money men behind the opposition.
Read MoreFour years ago on Oct. 8, Sen. Dan Sullivan said he withdrew his support for Donald Trump after the “reprehensible revelations” on the Access Hollywood tape demonstrated that Trump couldn’t lead by example in fighting sexual assault and domestic violence.
Read MoreHidden beneath the tens of millions the oil companies are dumping into their propaganda campaign is another fact: North Slope oil production today is almost exactly what the state predicted in 2011 under the ACES tax system—486,000 barrels a day.
Read MoreIn announcing the discovery of a brand new “principle” to advance a GOP nominee before the election, Sullivan has abandoned the central tenet of his old “principle,” that an election about the control of the White House, the Senate and the Supreme Court is near at hand and the Senate should wait to see the election results.
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