Justice Samuel Alito and his buddies on the Wall Street Journal editorial page produced a turgid response to a ProPublica investigation about Alito’s fishy Alaska vacation before they had read it.
Journal editorial writer Kim Strassel, who claims to live half the time in Wasilla, wrote on Twitter that Alito “destroys the silly piece from the hit team” at ProPublica. She is clueless.
Read MoreBillionaire Paul Singer brought Justice Samuel Alito to Alaska on his private jet for a fishing vacation at the King Salmon Lodge in 2008, where the going rate was more than $1,000 a day.
It was the first time the two had met.
Singer, a hedge fund titan with a net worth of $5.5 billion, had 10 cases before the Supreme Court in the years that followed, but Alito never recused himself.
ProPublica published a thorough and damning investigation Tuesday night about Singer’s generosity to Alito, and how Alito never disclosed the gift of the trip to the lodge on the Naknek River from a man who became his friend.
Read MoreThe headline number about Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s vetoes—that he trimmed more than $200 million from the operating and capital budgets—is misleading. It disguises his focus on cutting education at all levels.
More than 85 percent of the real reductions in programs and facility maintenance are in budget items related to education, the most important public service for families in Alaska.
Read MoreGov. Mike Dunleavy vetoed more than $140 million in funding for education at all levels, but refused to explain or try to justify his latest attack on education.
His vetoes included cutting half of the education increase approved by the Legislature to prevent layoffs and cutbacks in districts across the state. Dunleavy cut $87 million from the one-time boost that districts had said wasn’t enough to offset years of not adjusting for inflation.
Read MoreThere are many public safety questions about turning our highways into industrial mining roads that remain intentionally unexamined by the Dunleavy administration.
The new plan to double Kinross truck traffic from Fox to the mine is the latest evidence of the pitfalls of saying yes without blinking or thinking.
Read MoreThe six trustees of the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation all live in the Anchorage area, but that’s no reason for the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation to expand its bureaucratic footprint beyond Juneau and waste hundreds of thousands leasing new office space in the state’s largest city.
Read MoreWe now know more about the alleged “Alaska Office of Family & Life” that Gov. Mike Dunleavy claimed to have created when he promoted philosopher/photographer Jeremy Cubas and set his salary at $110,000.
There never was an office, just a task assigned to Cubas to create a website, oppose abortion and speak about why young women need to have more babies. Cubas resigned two weeks ago. the website was never launched.
Read MoreWe 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.
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