On March 9, two days before Rep. Sara Rasmussen took a trip to Utah, House Speaker Bryce Edgmon advised legislators to not travel Outside Alaska because of the growing COVID-19 crisis. She ignored that advice and missed the most important votes of the 2020 session. It’s only natural that her opponent, Stephen Trimble, has made it an issue in the campaign.
Read MorePity the four Alaska politicians have done nothing to pressure Trump to stop his incessant lying about the threats to the health and wellbeing of people in the United States and Canada. Or to call on Trump and his cronies to be concerned with something more than the election.
Read MoreIt is a lie, whether spread by preachers or pundits, to portray a reasoned and thoughtful legal decision—written by another judge—and approved unanimously by the Supreme Court, as evidence of Judge Susan Carney “stealing your PFD.” That the pastors have signed onto this lie is a disgrace.
Read MoreWhat’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.
Read MoreBallot 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.
Read MoreFairbanks 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.
Read MoreRep. 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.
Read MoreWhen 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.
Read MoreApproval 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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