It should have been a simple process to add supplemental sex education materials, but hysteria triumphed and the Fairbanks school board walked away in fear.
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Gov. Mike Dunleavy responded to a threat from former President Donald Trump by secretly promising the former president that he will not endorse the reelection campaign of Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
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My twin was a father of three children, or six children, depending upon how you look at it—Henry, Connor, Desmond, Aileen, Anne and Elizabeth. He regarded my three kids as his own and never failed to tell them what to do or what they were doing wrong. They paid as much attention to him as they did to me.
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“When you use public money there’s strings attached to it, mainly on disclosure, where these funds are going and to who and for what purpose,” said Sen. Bert Stedman, co-chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. The Permanent Fund has so far failed to get the message.
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Senate President Peter Micciche has given all state employees—including Sen. Lora Reinbold and others who seek to stifle critics— a good lesson in how to deal with comments on social media—stop blocking people just because they disagree with you.
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The state is spending about half of the $1 billion in direct disaster aid this fiscal year, while Dunleavy proposes using nearly all the rest in FY 23. This warps the state financial situation enough to make the surplus claim a lie.
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The imaginary Dunleavy surplus is largely a product of using more than a half-billion dollars in one-time-only federal disaster funds to underwrite regular agency operations for the fiscal year that starts next July. There is no surplus.
On Tuesday, Dunleavy held a press conference to promote several programs, including putting more millions into the foster care system, without admitting that he vetoed money for improving foster care five months ago.
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Dunleavy began his administration with a campaign to get rid of the $1 billion Power Cost Equalization endowment and force the program to compete with all others for state funds each year, which would make it unlikely to survive. He wants AFN and everyone in rural Alaska to forget about what he said and did in 2019.
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While we have various lawmakers saying they plan to ask the trustees of the Permanent Fund to answer questions about the firing of Angela Rodell, they need to realize that this is not enough: The Legislature needs to begin monitoring the APFC and other state corporations as part of the checks and balances required by state law.
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