In the Fairbanks area, the Republican-controlled redistricting board has produced a partisan ma aimed at diluting the Democratic vote in the Goldstream area and on the west side of the community.
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“This actually gives Eagle River the opportunity for more representation. They’re certainly not going to be disenfranchised by this process,” Bethany Marcum said Monday of her disputed plan to boost the political standing of Eagle River, words that she probably regrets saying in a public forum.
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“Perhaps Governor Dunleavy is unaware that Alaska law mandates each school student in Alaska, unless exempted, be vaccinated for diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, chickenpox, and Haemophilus influenza type B. It’s a total of seven vaccines, some of them involving as many as three shots. And they work; those diseases are pretty much eradicated in Alaska schools as a consequence of that set of immunization requirements.”
—From the Wickersham’s Conscience blog
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Jason Brune, commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation, has been falsely claiming for more than two years that the cruise ship monitoring program created by Alaska voters has been eliminated. It still exists, but the Dunleavy administration has chosen to ignore the law.
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Clueless Commonwealth North doesn’t understand that this is no time to be handing out a leadership award to Gov. Mike Dunleavy for dealing with COVID-19. The only people who deserve awards are the doctors, nurses, administrators and support staff members at our hospitals and clinics, struggling with a pandemic that was made worse by a lack of state leadership.
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The news coverage of the oil price and production guesses fails to make clear that the state computes its guesses in a way that no private company, no investor, no utility, no agency, no economist and no competent person would use.
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The Anchorage Daily News and Alaska Public Media published news accounts Monday that failed to make this clear. They sanitized Bronson’s secret role and failed to dig into the conflicting claims about it.
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Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson said he “didn’t want his fingerprints” on the so-called “early treatment summit” held in Anchorage Saturday at Changepoint church, so he concealed the role played by his administration in setting up the event. In effect, he lied to the public.
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In a pre-election sermon last spring, the pastor of the Anchorage Baptist Temple denounced and ridiculed Forrest Dunbar, while endorsing Dave Bronson. The camera cut to Bronson in the audience as the pastor praised his political positions.
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The question arises because Prevo’s attempt to do at Liberty University in Virginia what he did in Anchorage—use a tax-free institution to boost the fortunes of elect right-wing candidates—is now at the center of a lawsuit filed by a fired senior vice president at Liberty. Scott Lamb was the spokesman for the university.
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