The fear that Dunleavy will refuse to ask the Legislature for the $23 million matching grant to replace the Tustumena is real enough that Sen. Lisa Murkowski wrote him this week with a reminder that Dunleavy has already promised to come up with the cash to qualify for a $92.8 million federal grant.
Read MoreSen. Dan Sullivan gives himself some of the credit for getting Alabama Sen. Tommy “Coach” Tuberville to drop his obstruction of hundreds of military promotions, releasing a statement in which Sullivan didn’t mention the guy who created the mess.
Sullivan tried to blur the picture of what Tuberville did.
Read MoreThe trustees of the Alaska Permanent Fund want the annual evaluation of the fund’s executive director to be conducted in an executive session with nothing in writing. The idea is to avoid creating a paper trail that would become a public document, according to the trustees.
Read MoreHouse Speaker Mike Johnson is to speak Tuesday before a convention of Christian nationalists at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C.
Homer Rep. Sarah Vance is a charter member of the National Association of Christian Lawmakers, a group that promotes the creation of a theocracy in the United States.
Read MoreSen. Dan Sullivan’s office won’t say how many people have applied to the new secret Sullivan federal judge selection committee, chaired by his friend and former employer, Sean Parnell.
Judge applications to the secret committee were due by November 20, but Sullivan spokeswoman Amanda Coyne has declined to respond to several requests about how many people have applied and when their names will be released. Perhaps they will never be released.
Read MoreThe attorney general’s office asked those assembled at the statehood defense trough if they wanted to keep their hourly rates secret. Great idea, said three law firms.
Read MoreThe Dunleavy administration continues to create new jobs in the statehood defense industry, most of them with lawyers Outside earning several hundred dollars an hour by promoting the political opinions of Gov. Mike Dunleavy and Attorney General Tregarrick Taylor.
There is no evidence that before signing contracts to create statehood defense jobs—spending hundreds of thousands of dollars or even millions in the process—that anyone in state government investigates the chances of success or whether the money might be better spent elsewhere.
Read MoreThe most comprehensive news article written so far on the Tetlin gold mine and the Kinross ore-hauling plan comes from a freelance reporter for Grist, a nonprofit news site. I recommend it to anyone who wants to be informed about the matter.
Read MoreThe Dunleavy administration’s $12,000-a-month statehood defense contract with former Attorney General Craig Richards is not authorized by state regulations and should be revoked.
The contract says Richards will be paid for seven months, but it only includes $50,000 to pay him, which is $34,000 short. This is not an accident.
Read MoreWith no public announcement, the state hired Dunleavy ally Craig Richards, a trustee of the Alaska Permanent Fund, to serve as “statehood defense coordinator” under a no-bid seven-month contract that pays Richards $12,000 a month for part-time work.
This is in contrast to the big public show Dunleavy made on July 9, 2021 when he hired former employee Brett Huber to perform the statehood posturing exercises that are part of Attorney General Tregarrick Taylor’s daily workout.
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