Neera Tanden's Mean Tweet directed at Sen. Lisa Murkowski more than three years ago was as accurate as the Positive Tweet that Tanden aimed at her earlier that year for a vote that helped save health care for millions.
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The connections between Ben Stevens and ConocoPhillips that emerged from the Veco corruption trials should not be forgotten.
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In each of the next three years, the Dunleavy administration wants to cut pay for about 2,000 supervisors by 2 percent, according to an update on contract negotiations distributed by the Alaska Public Employees Association.
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Sen. Mike Shower and all of those clamoring to put more politics in the judicial selection process should remember that with a different governor and Legislature, making the judiciary subject to the political whims of elected officials would suddenly lose all of its appeal.
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“Talking about weapons. I happened to serve during Korea,” Rep. Don Young said. “And I was well trained in how to kill somebody with my hands.”
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The Republican Senate Caucus of Equals is controlled by a Cavalcade of Crackpots. Sen. Lora Reinbold continues to reign, specializing in nonsense, lies and conspiracy theories.
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If Attorney General Treg Taylor is unaware of these details in the handling of the Clark Penney no-bid contract or simply willing to overlook them to help his boss, he doesn’t deserve to be attorney general and should be rejected by the Legislature.
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Let’s not fool ourselves. Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s vision of Alaska “self-reliance” on the and his call to “think big” about the gas pipeline would be courtesy of the red, white and blue.
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The gas pipeline dream promoted by Gov. Mike Dunleavy would be a federal public works project unlike anything in Alaska history. As an opponent of big government, he’s trying to downplay the enormous federal subsidy.
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A year ago, Gov. Dunleavy said this about the Clark Penney contract: “To answer your question, we’re looking into all of the details surrounding that contract and other contracts. And once we are finished with our deep dive, we will come out and we will have a presser on it.” The long-promised “presser” (press conference) never happened.
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