Under the guise of protecting property rights, Tammie Wilson and Jimi Cash are taking aim at a key provision in local law that makes Fairbanks more livable, raises property values and protects local trails for hiking, running, mushing, skiing, snowmaking and all-terrain vehicles.
Read MoreSince the sale of BP’s Alaska assets to Hilcorp, Gov. Mike Dunleavy has done nothing to fix a glaring loophole in state tax law, which has made it easy for the Legislature to do nothing, a government failure that amounts to an annual gift of tens of millions or hundreds of millions a year to HIlcorp owner Texas billionaire Jeff Hildebrand.
Read MoreAlaskan John Reeves, who never tires of stirring the pot, is trying to set off a “bone rush” in New York City for a valuable load of mammoth tusks from Fairbanks that was dumped in the East River in 1940.
Read MoreThe Dunleavy administration is taking political lessons from George Santos, the current master of “embellishment.”
Read MoreThe lack of interest in these sales and the one that took place last spring highlight the need for leadership in Alaska about just how we are going to keep the heat on and the electricity flowing in Alaska’s Railbelt a decade from now. The answer is not at all clear. There is no coherent or practical plan from the Dunleavy administration and the utilities about how to resolve the matter.
Read MoreGov. Mike Dunleavy, seeking an $850 million federal subsidy for a Cook Inlet hydrogen project, claims “Alaska has everything going for it in this competition.”
We don’t know yet why the federal Department of Energy feels otherwise, but it has discouraged the Alaska Gasline Development Corp. from going through the work of a submitting a full application.
Read MoreThe Department of Energy has already told the Dunleavy administration that it doesn’t think much of the state application for an $850 million subsidy for a hydrogen project in Cook Inlet—one of 79 applications competing for billions in federal grants. After reviewing all of the competing proposals, the DOE said it has discouraged the Alaska Gasline Development Corp. from submitting a full application.
Read MoreIn 1993, my twin brother researched and wrote a report for the University of Alaska on the last traditional land-grant college in the United States, a publication he called “A Land-Grant College Without the Land: A History of the University of Alaska’s Federal Land Grant.”
After a landmark decision this week by the federal government, it will no longer be the land-grant college without the land.
Read MoreGov. Mike Dunleavy is jumping on the carbon sequestration bandwagon, pitching it as the next best thing to free money, a cash cow that no one will oppose.
“The reason we landed on this is it doesn’t gore any ox,” Dunleavy said at a budget press conference when asked why he chose carbon sequestration as his single option for raising new revenue for the state.
Read MoreGov. Mike Dunleavy plans to reorganize the state law department to promote his political attacks on the Biden administration, hiring more contract lawyers and transferring 52 state employees into a new “Statehood Defense and Resource Development” office within the department.
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