What they base this announcement about the value of the premium on is anyone’s guess, as they appear to have done no research on the topic and the column is on a level with a bar-room blather or campaign jabber.
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Dunleavy is hoping the Senate will kill any legislation that sets reasonable limits on campaign donations, using the bogus excuse that there is no time to write a bill. That would allow Dunleavy to avoid vetoing the bill and facing direct political consequences during the campaign.
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As the Alaska Public Offices Commission staff put it, “until the Alaska State Legislature takes action on this issue, there are no longer any individual-to-candidate; and individual-to-non-political party contributions limits for Alaska’s state and local elections.”
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U.S. Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka has a habit of embellishing the stories she tells, improving on the facts for campaign purposes. This results is a series of lies, half-truths and exaggerations that she continues to repeat.
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While it may be too late to sell Russian stocks without huge losses, this is not just a matter of politics. There is also the question of economics and whether our investment managers should have acted in advance and unloaded Russian holdings when there was something to unload. Balancing and holding onto a long-term vision is made more difficult when parts of the world are collapsing.
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With current oil prices we are paying close to the maximum in per barrel credits to the oil industry, a billion-dollar-plus scheme that has never been vetted or justified. It’s way past time to do something about that.
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Had Sen. Lisa Murkowski voted against Interior Secretary Deb Haaland in committee, the nomination would have still gone to the Senate floor for a vote. In the end, Sens. Murkowski and Dan Sullivan voted for Haaland, as did Lindsey Graham, Susan Collins and all the Democrats present last March. The Senate confirmed her 51-40.
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The Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly officially asked the Army Corps of Engineers to hold a hearing on the proposed Kinross gold trucking plan, a sensible decision.
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Aaron Lojewski and Frank Tomaszewski should be more concerned with the matters over which they have some authority as members of the assembly, not with sharing their crowd-pleasing views that people want bigger dividend checks from the state.
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Gov. Mike Dunleavy and his administration have refused to do any serious analysis of the Kinross plan to have trucks coming and going between Tetlin and Fort Knox every 7.5 minutes for years to come.
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