It’s a clear misuse of public funds and a violation of the state ethics act, which prohibits using state money for partisan purposes.
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Notably absent from the legal blather that the PCE fiasco isn’t Dunleavy’s fault is the clear political origin of the policy under Dunleavy, Arduin and Clarkson in 2019.
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A federal court tossed Alaska’s political campaign contribution limits Friday, but the court decision points to a corrective open to the Legislature—raise the maximum per person donation from $500 to $1,500 or $2,000 and index the amount to inflation.
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At a time when hospitals are sounding the alarm about unvaccinated Alaskans becoming seriously ill, Dunleavy sounds like a combination of Big Bird, Smokey Bear and the Crash Test Dummies.
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The Dunleavy administration and the mental health trust have tried to keep the Ester Dome plan quiet, probably to avoid generating opposition. This strategy will backfire.
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The News-Miner falsely claims in an editorial that Justice Craig Stowers found no legal justification for the recall and that the Supreme Court majority’s action “was an overreach and a breach of the Alaska Constitution.” That’s not accurate. Stowers agreed with the majority on two grounds for the Dunleavy recall.
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The hush-hush approach generates political opposition to the trust, which harms its beneficiaries. Legislators, governors and board members of the trust, past and present, bear responsibility for defining the legal obligations of the trust land office too narrowly.
The blame for failing to protect 84,000 rural Alaskans from extreme power costs rests entirely with the big guy. The news coverage of the suspension of the Power Cost Equalization payments as of July 1 has failed to present Dunleavy’s actions in context.
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One of the takeaways from a legislative hearing on the disorganized grab-bag that makes up the state tax picture is that the mining tax is overdue for review. Whether it will receive it, is another matter.
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After a two-month news blackout, Alaska Public Media and KUAC became the first Alaska news organizations to cover the debacle. But the report Wednesday did not deal with the financial scandal in Canada or the extent to which Alaska political leaders have been duped.
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