On a new state-funded podcast hosted by one of two new press agents hired last month, Health Commissioner Adam Crum gave a similar “get the shot if you feel like it” pitch. That’s not what a competent health commissioner would tell Alaskans.
Fairbanks voters rejected candidate Lance Roberts, who said God opposes the wearing of masks, and candidate Patricia Silva, who endorsed many lies and baseless conspiracy theories promoted by QAnon.
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Gov. Mike Dunleavy ordered that the special session take place as part of his re-election campaign. But the Legislature is not going to approve a bigger dividend. The $1,114 payments are set to go out this month. This is grandstanding by Dunleavy.
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One of the big things here is that Dunbar did not raise his voice and did not make the situation worse by responding in kind to Myers. His level of patience in the minutes that followed was admirable and a lesson in leadership.
Photo: Paxson Woelber, Alaska Landmine)
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The trip to the Kenai Peninsula for every state employee involved should be paid for by the Dunleavy campaign, but the governor is portraying it as an official state activity, promoting what he did on a government website.
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While the hospitals are packed with people who can’t breathe, we have political gas bags attacking medical science, and fools equating masks with tyranny and the Holocaust, fueling the frenzy of those who want to hear themselves scream.
(Photo: Paxson Woelber, Alaska Landmine)
Read MoreThe state Department of Natural Resources approved a mining exploration permit for work north of Chena Hot Springs Road on September 9. But it didn’t open the plan to public comment until posting a public notice September 28.
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It’s not clear if the trust land office suggested that the company withdraw and avoid what was sure to become a major fight with the neighborhood, but that is possible.
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It’s a sign that Dunleavy had trouble packing the list with a cross-section of the populace, which is what campaigns hope for, not a collection of people who owe their paychecks to him.
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Deaths have become a daily ritual as the virus sweeps through the community. Outside the hospital walls, many people pretend there is nothing alarming happening. But inside the hospital, patients are struggling to breathe.
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