It will take millions in private investment with uncertain prospects for profit to develop large-scale agriculture in Nenana, but the state is putting the land up for auction with low minimum bids. The rushed nature of the sale is not about growing food, but about growing votes for Dunleavy.
Read MoreIn 2013, legislative lawyers told Dunleavy and his staff member, Bethany Marcum, that the matter is a complex one that would have to be decided by the Alaska Supreme Court. A key 1979 decision found that tuition grants for Sheldon Jackson University, a private college, were illegal under the Alaska Constitution.
Read MoreWhat’s more alarming than this attempt to circumvent the language of the Alaska Constitution about diverting public money to private schools is that Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor has a clear conflict of interest that should disqualify him from deciding the matter.
Read MoreIf the dunderheads claim that Murkowski can’t mention that she is a Republican because the party has not declared her to be a “member,” only a “participant,” it will be an interesting case about freedom of speech that Murkowski will win.
Read MoreThis contract is exactly what it looks like—a sweetheart deal to get $50,000 in state money to a trusted campaign worker without requiring any real work.
Read MoreThis deserves a state ethics complaint about Dunleavy’s absurd no-bid $50,000 contract to a key campaign worker and an APOC complaint about the independent Dunleavy campaign group that isn’t at all independent.
Read MoreOn May 10, Terry Gardiner and his friend John Sund left Seattle and began rowing home to Ketchikan in a 17-foot rowboat.
Read MoreThe Dunleavy campaign, not the state treasury, should be paying Dunleavy PR men Dave Stieren and Andrew Jensen, who should return to the private sector where they can resume their complaints about bloated government.
Read MoreAfter the Texas children’s massacre, the New York Times asked every Republican senator, including Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan about their position on strengthening background checks for people who want to buy guns. They had nothing to say.
Read More“It’s just too bad lawmakers don’t worship education funding as much as reelection-size dividends. The budget approved by lawmakers spends a lot more on dividends than it does on state funding to K-12 public education.”
By Larry Persily
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