Trying to sell giant dividend, Dunleavy repeats multi-billion-dollar earnings lie

The Dunleavy $6.3 billion withdrawal plan would reduce the long-term earning power of the Permanent Fund and expand future deficits by about $160 million a year. A sustainable withdrawal would be about $3 billion.

Dermot ColeJanuary 7, 2021 Comments

Murkowski, Sullivan helped Trump coup attempt with four years of political cowardice

Sullivan and Murkowski have encouraged the Trump coup and the Republican terrorists, but they won’t take any responsibility for their political cowardice.

Dermot ColeJanuary 6, 2021 Comments

Alaska Development Team proves that talk is cheap, development is not

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.

Dermot ColeJanuary 5, 2021 Comments

Ignoring medical advice, Dunleavy administration refused to make frontline workers top vaccination priority

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.

Dermot ColeJanuary 4, 2021 Comments

Sullivan refuses to join Murkowski in attacking GOP coup attempt

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.

Dermot ColeJanuary 3, 2021 Comments

Alaska newspapers fail to correct biggest financial distortion in state history

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.

Dermot ColeDecember 30, 2020 Comments

A final thank you from Terrence Cole

His lifelong interest in ambidexterity, a dear friend told me, was based on his uncanny ability to write illegibly with both hands.

Dermot ColeDecember 24, 2020 Comments

Dunleavy falsely claims Alaska Permanent Fund gained $11 billion since March

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.

Dermot ColeDecember 23, 2020 Comments

State agency failed to disclose $20 million ANWR investment plan

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.

Dermot ColeDecember 21, 2020 Comments

Dunleavy would close DMV offices in Delta, Tok, Valdez, Haines, Homer and Eagle River

Four Eagle River DMV positions would be transferred to Anchorage under the Dunleavy budget, while six positions in more remote towns would be eliminated.

Dermot ColeDecember 20, 2020 Comments