It appears that the Dunleavy and House GOP “plan” to stuff unexamined education items into a bill and pass it without public review has drawn enough opposition to slow it down, which is good. The attempt to rework the charter school model to take power away from local school boards is one of the unexamined elements.
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The Dunleavy approach, now the Deena Bishop approach, is to take power away from local school boards and concentrate it in the hands of the state education bureaucracy and the state school board that is made up of Dunleavy supporters.
Read MoreUnder the proposed $25 billion corporate merger between the companies that own Fred Meyer and Safeway, 14 stores in Alaska would be sold to C&S Wholesale Grocers, a company that hasn’t been in the retail business in Alaska.
Kroger, which wants to acquire Albertsons, says it needs a merger to become larger and be better able to compete, so no one should expect that the 14 stores to be sold to the smaller company would be long for this world. Kroger has not identified the 14 stores.
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The state is dutiful about reporting certain expenses on its online checkbook, such as the $600,000 or so paid to Gorilla Fireworks LLC for right of way condemnation and relocation in the latter months of 2023.
But nearly every statehood defense industry contract is missing from the online database.
Read MoreGov. Mike Dunleavy and his legislative allies want to strip local school boards of a key power in deciding the future of charter schools.
They want to give the state Board of Education, controlled by Dunleavy supporters, the power to approve charter schools in local communities across Alaska.
Read MoreThe U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Dunleavy administration’s anti-union crusade Tuesday, with a brief notice saying the appeal was denied.
Attorney General Tregarrick Taylor hired the $600-per-hour attorneys of Consovoy McCarthy to take on this losing effort.
Read MoreThe perjury indictment from the grand jury against one of David Haeg’s targets, retired District Judge Margaret Murphy, will eventually be tossed by the courts because of its flaws.
But the injustice set in motion by Attorney General Tregarrick Taylor’s pandering deserves a complete investigation.
Read MoreAttorney General Tregarrick Taylor bowed to right-wing demands to cripple the role of prosecutors in a secret grand jury proceeding that became a “vigilante circus,” as the lawyer for the chief target of a runaway grand jury puts it.
Other circuses may follow, as the Dunleavy administration is now asking to spend $502,000 a year to hire a lawyer, a paralegal and an assistant to work with “investigative grand juries.”
Read MoreFormer Attorney General Craig Richards, now the Dunleavy administration’s statehood defense coordinator, and Attorney General Tregarrick Taylor have signed an amended contract that violates state procurement regulations, paying Richards $12,000 a month,
Read MoreRetired Alaska District Court Judge Margaret Murphy of Homer should not become a victim of mob rule.
But she already has had to suffer through what her attorney rightly calls an “inappropriate, illegal and an unfair proceeding.”
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