We haven’t been blindsided by the police staffing crisis in Fairbanks. We just haven’t been paying attention to an emergency that has been years in the making. Our elected officials have downplayed the severity of the situation.
Seven years ago, former Police Chief Dan Hoffman said the “department is on the verge of operating at true crisis levels.”
Read MoreThe City of Fairbanks is moving to a part-time police department in August, ending 24-hour patrols and cutting back by four hours, leaving 8 a.m. to noon with no officers on patrol.
This is alarming, to say the least. If you call 911 in an emergency, what answer can you expect if you are within the City of Fairbanks? Same-day service? Maybe not.
Read MoreSen. Dan Sullivan should come clean with Alaskans about why he didn’t actually read the 37-count indictment before announcing his verdict that it’s all Joe Biden’s fault.
The all-purpose “Blame it on Biden” Sullivan statement recycles lazy talking points, which is also what happened March 31 when Sullivan attacked the previous Trump indictment without bothering to read it.
The first indictment “moved our country into banana republic territory,” Sullivan falsely claimed in March.
Read MoreThe Alaska Permanent Fund and the state’s retirement systems have billions of dollars invested and managed by “private equity” companies.
We know little about the specifics because of blanket confidentiality rules. We are told to trust that the experts know what they are doing. Perhaps that’s true.
What we don’t hear from anyone in Alaska state government is any discussion of the impacts of this investment category for the state, the nation and the world.
Read MoreThe alleged office, which I suspect is nothing more than a set of talking points that will be assigned to someone else in the governor’s office, is not something Alaska needs.
What we need is for Dunleavy to do much more about the deficiencies in state government in dealing with families and children.
It is hypocritical of him to claim to be ”pro-life,” while doing nothing to fix the gaping holes in our system that destroy families and lives.
Read More“Averill was an inspiration in how to walk into your twilight years, accepting and adapting to the changes that age brings while continuing to pursue both longtime and new interests. In recent years, he followed the research on phytonocides, substances emitted by trees, as scientists proved what he had always known: that being near trees is good for human health.”
Read MoreNow comes the OFL, which is not a new competitor of the NFL, but the Office of Family & Life, which a far-right ally of Dunleavy claims has been created in the bowels of state government.
The Dunleavy OFL is off to a rough start, as the state employee chosen by Dunleavy to lead the pro-family charge, Jeremy Cubas, flamed out in spectacular fashion, espousing anti-family values.
Read MoreTemporary University of Alaska Regent Tuckerman Babcock doesn’t belong on the UA Board of Regents, not even until the Legislature has the chance to officially reject his appointment by Gov. Mike Dunleavy.
Dunleavy violated state law by failing to appoint a replacement for Bethany Marcum, who was rejected by the Legislature, within the three-day period required by state law. The Alaska Landmine posted the relevant statute on Twitter Thursday night.
Read MoreGov. Mike Dunleavy’s expert on promoting family values turned out to be a guy who thinks rape and Hitler have gotten a bad rap, while Martin Luther King Jr. was a “serial rapist” who accomplished nothing in his life but got “himself shot like a dumbass and died before he accomplished anything.”
Before publication of a story by Alaska Public Media Tuesday that revealed the anti-family views of Dunleavy’s family values expert, Jeremy Cubas resigned from his state job.
Read MoreAlaska Attorney General Tregarrick Taylor had his name on some of the early legal documents for Kevin Clarkson’s anti-union crusade, which is now the Dunleavy-Taylor crusade, based on the proposition that state employees who voluntarily are in a union and voluntarily pay union dues are not acting voluntarily.
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