What Dunleavy and his representatives didn’t bother to explain in 2019 was that his proposed constitutional amendment was aimed at stripping Alaskans of a fundamental right they have under the Alaska Constitution, the ability to raise taxes by initiative.
Read MoreThe Mental Health Trust Land Office in Anchorage should have shown some recognition that this is a quiet residential area, instead of appearing to assume that this is an entirely unpopulated zone with no possibility of conflicts over land uses.
Read MoreThe board of the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority is treating the decision to spend about $17 million this year on oil leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as a political vision, not a business decision.
Read MoreEverybody loves a state spending limit, as long as there is no discussion of cutting road maintenance, education, dividends, public safety, grants to local governments, emergency services, airports, ferries, courts, health care or anything else.
Read MoreThe Trump rule mandating that the biggest national banks have to make loans for Arctic oil exploration is likely to survive as long in the Biden administration as the White House stockpile of MAGA hats.
Read MoreThe proxy vote that Rep. Don Young made while missing from Congress, opposing Trump’s impeachment, is illegal and a sham, according to a bold statement from Don Young circa June, 2020, who said he would never vote that way. A big reversal for Rep. Beer Virus.
Read MoreA key requirement in the state financial disclosure law can be ignored if a public official gets his or her spouse to write a letter claiming the public official doesn’t have any idea how much the spouse makes.
Read MoreThe Pebble appeal is probably already dead with the Biden administration. But Dunleavy will want to go to court on this, especially if he gets the $4 million he has asked from the Legislature for the elite statehood strike force of Outside contract lawyers.
Read MoreSen. Dan Sullivan now says his fervent wish from way back was for Trump to accept the election results. But Sullivan waited to express this fervent wish until a day after the Trump terrorists stormed the Capitol, which leads me to conclude that it wasn’t his fervent wish until it was too late.
Read MoreSen. Mia Costello, a world-class opponent of the evils of Big Government, wants local government officials to face fines of up to $1,000 for attending illegal secret meetings.
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