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 MoreConocoPhillips 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 MoreBrett 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 MoreThe 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 MoreThe 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 MoreIt 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 MoreWhat 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 MoreThe 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 MoreRep. 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 MoreThe 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.
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