What’s surprising, if not shocking, is that Sen. Dan Sullivan thought he could freely take phrases and a few sentences out of context—from an easily available video of Dr. Al Gross—without getting caught.
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Ballot Measure No 1 should be approved for no other reason than it is the only political mechanism strong enough to force the Legislature to include oil taxes in the fiscal plan the state needs to preserve the Permanent Fund and state services.
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Fairbanks Senate candidate Marna Sanford has offered a sensible approach to the state budget. Republican Robert Myers, by contrast, is trying to sell a fiscal fantasy that even Mike Dunleavy wouldn’t have tried to pawn off on the public.
Sen. Dan Sullivan is lucky that Alaska news organizations have not asked him questions about his secret health care plan because otherwise it might be exposed as a meaningless pledge that leaves every important medical question unanswered.
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Rep. Don Young, the Trump administration, the U.S. Senate and others in the political establishment failed the nation with an incompetent response to the pandemic, creating a tragedy that is far from finished.
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When Trump claims next month that he is being cheated by a rigged election process, the years of obsequious treatment by Sen. Dan Sullivan, Sen. Lisa Murkowski and all other Senate Republicans will allow Trump to try to get away with it.
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Approval of the ballot measure raising oil taxes may be the only way to require that the Legislature include oil taxes in the fiscal plan the state has to adopt next year or else. The ballot measure can be amended in the future, a safety valve that removes much of the alleged risks cited by the Outside oil companies.
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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.
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The 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.
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Alaska 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.
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