Reporting From Alaska
Cart 0
SUBSCRIBE
Cart 0
Reporting From Alaska
Dermot Cole
SUBSCRIBE
Gasline promoters downplay dream of $4.5 billion federal subsidy
Gasline promoters downplay dream of $4.5 billion federal subsidy

Dunleavy is comfortable attacking President Biden and big spenders in Washington, D.C., but he is not at all comfortable in admitting that his pipeline dream depends upon the cooperation of Biden and the big spenders in D.C. to provide a subsidy of $4.5 billion.

Read More
Dermot ColeMarch 10, 2021 Comments
State fails to produce 'public interest waiver' for Ben Stevens to take ConocoPhillips lobbying job
State fails to produce 'public interest waiver' for Ben Stevens to take ConocoPhillips lobbying job

ConocoPhillips wants Alaskans to believe Stevens will be the George Costanza of Alaska’s oil company for the next two years. It doesn’t pass the smell test to believe that Stevens will be cutting ribbons, handing out checks to charities, talking about the weather and never mentioning what levers to pull to defend Conoco's interests in Juneau.

Read More
Dermot ColeMarch 9, 2021 Comments
Former Dunleavy aide, 'campaign volunteer,' collected $45,000 for fighting election initiative
Former Dunleavy aide, 'campaign volunteer,' collected $45,000 for fighting election initiative

Brett Huber, former campaign manager and aide to Gov. Mike Dunleavy, testified under oath last fall that he was serving as a volunteer in the effort to defeat the initiative to reform the election process in Alaska.

Read More
Dermot ColeMarch 8, 2021 Comments
Murkowski, Sullivan refuse to list what they opposed in COVID bailout
Murkowski, Sullivan refuse to list what they opposed in COVID bailout

The unmentionable objectionables need to be identified by Murkowski and Sullivan, lest it be revealed that this was not at all about specifics, but the blanket wall of opposition built by Republicans.

Read More
Dermot ColeMarch 7, 2021 Comments
Potential conflict of interest on DMV office closures deserves examination
Potential conflict of interest on DMV office closures deserves examination

The most important slide of all was missing from the package of eight slides presented to the Senate Transportation Committee by Administration Commissioner Kelly Tshibaka—the one that detailed the increased costs to consumers by privatizing six offices of the Division of Motor Vehicles.

Read More
Dermot ColeMarch 5, 2021 Comments
Revenue commissioner admits Dunleavy's 'timeline doesn't work,' but fails to call for fiscal plan
Revenue commissioner admits Dunleavy's 'timeline doesn't work,' but fails to call for fiscal plan

It appears Lucinda Mahoney is more interested in holding the job of revenue commissioner than in doing the work of the revenue commissioner. She almost told the House Finance Committee the truth about the disastrous impact of Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s failure to offer a fiscal plan.

Read More
Dermot ColeMarch 4, 2021 Comments
Shower insists on strict interpretation of statutes, whatever that means
Shower insists on strict interpretation of statutes, whatever that means

What happens when a judge who believes in the strict interpretation of the Constitution encounters someone who believes in a stricter interpretation? Time for the Shower scale.

Read More
Dermot ColeMarch 2, 2021 Comments
As expected, Dunleavy Pebble appeal falls flat
As expected, Dunleavy Pebble appeal falls flat

The Dunleavy administration’s appeal of the Pebble Mine permit denial was a farce, a grandstanding appeal for publicity. Reporters never bothered to read the regulations that clearly prohibited the state from appealing the decision because it was not the applicant.

Read More
Dermot ColeMarch 1, 2021 Comments
Rep. Don Young only pretended to be in Congress to oppose COVID bailout bill
Rep. Don Young only pretended to be in Congress to oppose COVID bailout bill

Rep. Don Young’s staff, writing for the 87-year-old Congressman on social media, deceived Alaskans by making it appear that Young was present in the U.S. House to oppose the latest COVID bailout bill when he was really missing in action.

Read More
Dermot ColeFebruary 27, 2021 Comments
AIDEA claims state law allows oil lease bids, but it doesn't
AIDEA claims state law allows oil lease bids, but it doesn't

The law creating the fund is designed to promote loans and loan guarantees to finance infrastructure development, but AIDEA has decided to go far beyond such activities, bypassing legislative review of items that should have been in the capital budget and debated in public.

Read More
Dermot ColeFebruary 26, 2021 Comments
Newer Older

Subscribe now to
Reporting from Alaska

Your contributions help support independent analysis and political commentary by Alaska reporter and author Dermot Cole. Thank you for reading and for your support. Either click here to use PayPal or send checks to: Dermot Cole, Box 10673, Fairbanks, AK 99710-0673.
Write me at dermotmcole@gmail.com

We respect your privacy and will not share your email address

Thank you!
 
Donate
 
827 Gold Mine Trail,
Fairbanks, AK, 99712,
United States
907-457-8125 dermotmcole@gmail.com
Hours
 
 

Copyright 2024 Dermot Cole. All Rights Reserved.