The most flagrant political item in the Dunleavy gift bag is the idea of giving the Mat-Su borough $10 million to spend on whatever road projects the borough deems the most important.
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The biggest flaw is the continuing lack of leadership—Dunleavy wants a special session to start this week to rewrite the state financial plan without giving Alaskans or legislators a clue about what he sees in future taxes and spending on state services.
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“I just want to put it squarely to you. Are these kickbacks that Mr. (Sean) McCoshen is paying you in connection with extending loans to his companies?”, Carlo Rossi, a staff member of the Ontario Securities Commission asked David Sharpe, co-founder of the Alberta to Alaska railroad dream. “No, they’re not,” said Sharpe.
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Dunleavy spoke about his plan for nearly 50 minutes before mentioning that it would require taking an extra $3 billion out of the Permanent Fund to cover the deficit it would create. He said the $3 billion would cover the deficit for “several years,” but that requires a leap of imagination.
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AG Treg Taylor did not tell legislators the truth about the Ben Stevens ethics waiver during his confirmation hearings. But the 35 legislators who voted to confirm him Tuesday didn’t care.
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Tuckerman’s disgraceful interference in the process to pick judges is reason enough to keep him and his wife away from the Alaska Judicial Council. The full Legislature is set to hold a confirmation vote on Kristie Babcock and others Tuesday.
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The claims last year from the alleged “OneAlaska leadership team” that the Legislature is the proper place to thoroughly consider oil taxes and do it out in the open were part of the oil industry con job.
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The House Finance Committee meets Friday at 9 a.m. to consider a proposal that would increase the Alaska gasoline tax by eight cents a gallon, a raise so small that most Alaskans would not notice, given the constant fluctuation in fuel prices.
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Fairbanks Memorial Hospital: “We are close to ‘divert’ status based on lack of additional respiratory equipment. This means as new patients need to be admitted, for any kind of care (heart attack, broken leg, etc.), they will be assessed for our capacity to provide care to them and they might need to be medevac’d to an Anchorage or Seattle hospital. This creates a serious hardship for patients and families – it puts them in an unfamiliar environment for care, limits the support they can get from their friends and family, and it can be extremely expensive for the patient.”
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Sen. Dan Sullivan, who perfected the art of pretending to never hear, see or read the nonsense of Donald Trump, can’t stop complaining about Biden appointees who criticized Republicans with intemperate language.
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