This is just a guess because the meeting is secret, but I’m guessing that AIDEA plans to meet two days before Christmas to talk about bidding on tracts in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, an idea floated by former Govs. Frank Murkowski and Bill Walker.
Read MoreThe state is looking to permanently move people to telework, which is the first step toward outsourcing and privatizing many tasks so that they can be performed anywhere in the world, reducing the number of state employees in the process.
Read MoreFederal funds have provided temporary relief for Alaska’s public broadcasters, but Gov. Mike Dunleavy is again proposing to eliminate $2.7 million in state grants for public radio and TV for the next fiscal year.
Read MoreThis could be an expensive act of political symbolism for Alaska, seeing as how the opposition to Arctic drilling is a growing worldwide phenomenon. Nearly 30 major banks worldwide have taken positions that would make them off-limits for doing business with the state government. That includes six major U.S. banks.
Read MoreMy twin brother has slipped away after 67 years, which seems like a long time and yet not nearly enough.
Read MoreAlaska’s most radical legislators and Gov. Mike Dunleavy have signed onto the overthrow campaign by backing the idiotic lawsuit filed by a Texas politician who is fishing for a Trump pardon.
Read MoreThat Dunleavy would sign onto this nonsense is an embarrassment to Alaska.
Read MoreThe Trump administration moved Monday to make the entire 1.5-million-acre coastal plain available for leasing by oil companies, hoping to open the bids Jan. 6 and seal the fate of the Arctic refuge before Biden takes office.
Trump has made the proposed lease sale more legally, politically and financially vulnerable by cutting corners and creating openings for additional court challenges.
Dunleavy continues to claim that it’s not up to him to do anything about masks except recommend that people wear them. He has washed his hands of the matter.
Read MoreGov. Mike Dunleavy is wasting time arguing with local government officials when he should be leading. A statewide mask mandate is critical.
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