One of the enduring mysteries of the Dunleavy administration is the so-called “Alaska Development Team,” an effort that appears to have grown out of a campaign promise to recruit “distressed gun manufacturers” to build factories in Alaska.
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The most serious unexamined question for Alaska’s news organizations is why the Dunleavy administration decided that frontline essential workers should be given a lower priority for vaccine access than medical professionals recommended in a 20-0 vote. This is all about the political power of those aged 65 and older.
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That Sen. Dan Sullivan has nothing of substance to say about the Republican attempt to overturn the presidential election is in keeping with his practice of keeping quiet in the corner for as long as possible, sometimes allowing his underlings to make mealy-mouthed statements of inconsequence.
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The Anchorage Daily News, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, the Peninsula Clarion, the Delta Discovery, the Arctic Sounder, the Bristol Bay Times, the Cordova Times, the Mat-Su Frontiersman and the Ketchikan Daily News printed the Dunleavy piece without blinking.
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His lifelong interest in ambidexterity, a dear friend told me, was based on his uncanny ability to write illegibly with both hands.
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Gov. Mike Dunleavy chose to ignore the $8.5 billion drop in the value of the Permanent Fund over the first 18 days of March, concocting a fraudulent claim that the fund gained $11 billion since the start of the pandemic.
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The reasonable interpretation is that AIDEA tried to limit public attention for its meeting Wednesday and tried to sneak this one by. That is the wrong way for a state entity to do business, especially on a matter of this importance.
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Four Eagle River DMV positions would be transferred to Anchorage under the Dunleavy budget, while six positions in more remote towns would be eliminated.
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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.
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The 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.
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