Suzanne Downing, the voice of Trumpism in Alaska, whined Sunday about those comparing Trump’s rally to a pro-Nazi event held at the Garden in 1939.

Downing, who advertises herself as “A Force for Good,” falsely claimed that Hitler headlined the event in 1939 at what she falsely called “Madison Square Gardens.”

There is no evidence that Hitler ever traveled to the United States.

According to Downing’s logic, which she falsely claimed is the Democrats’ logic, all of those who have ever appeared at the Garden are now to be branded as Nazis.

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“Sadly,” Senate candidate Rep. Mike Cronk of Tok complained on Facebook a few days back, “politics of negativity has become the norm. Voters are tired of it. Again, thank you for your support and voting positive!”

“Where there is fear, there is often desperation. Where there is desperation, integrity and character are too often compromised,” Cronk claims.

Sadly, that paean to the power of positive thinking comes from a guy who is lying about his Senate opponent, Borough Assembly member Savannah Fletcher.

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The Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, which limits public involvement to whatever it can get away with, plans to act Wednesday on a plan to draw $20 million from a slush fund for new oil leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Before AIDEA acts, there should be a real public hearing with real public notice. Something far more than the limited opportunity that AIDEA is giving Wednesday at 9 a.m.

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At first glance, the obvious hole in the new Dunleavy data center drive is that he started it with a September 5 form letter to top executives of the tech companies, a missive that was no better than a piece of junk mail.

The state employee or employees who wrote the letter for Dunleavy didn’t even bother to revise the text of each letter to mention anything specific about Microsoft, Google, Apple or Meta in the body of the message, simply referring to each company as “your organization.”

It didn’t matter if he was addressing Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook or Satya Narayana Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, the letter was exactly the same.

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If Donald Trump wins the presidency a second time, Gov. Mike Dunleavy has an exit strategy from the struggles of state government.

“I would not rule it out,” Dunleavy told reporter Nat Herz when asked about whether he would seek a job under Trump. Dunleavy said he hasn’t had “that conversation” with Trump.

Dunleavy could have responded that he intends to fulfill his duties as governor and that he has no intention of quitting. “I would not rule it out,” is what a politician says when he is dreaming of a new job.

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The longer this ridiculous bureaucratic battle goes on, the more money and time will be wasted and the more uncertainty will be created about which road projects will move ahead and which will be delayed or cancelled.

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Former Anchorage Rep. Tom McKay should not be drawing his state paycheck as a legislator. Under state law he is no longer a legislator, regardless of House Speaker Caythy Tilton’s claims.

Read the state law—a legislator who resigns immediately cannot withdraw that resignation. McKay resigned when Gov. Mike Dunleavy rewarded him with a new job that McKay is ineligible to take for at least a year.

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Reporter Richard Fineberg won a national business journalism award for a meticulous investigation of an early version of the Alaska gas pipeline dream in 1979.

Fineberg’s trip to New York City to collect the $5,000 cash prize left a lasting impression on Howard Weaver, the Alaska newspaperman who at the time was the editor of “The Alaska Advocate,” where Fineberg’s treatise had appeared.

“Richard, a banjo-playing railroad buff, flew as far as Seattle but then hopped freights from there to New York and back. He told me he kept the check in his shoe for safekeeping on the return leg,” Weaver wrote in his autobiography.

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Republican Congressional candidate Nick Begich the Third has tried hard to distance himself from a company owned by his father, Nick Begich Jr., an enterprise that remains one of Begich the Third’s largest income sources.

Begich the Third claims he has nothing to do with Earthpulse Press or any of the ideas promoted on its defunct website about mind control, weather control, government conspiracies, etc. He merely collects money from the company as a 17 percent owner.

That’s not exactly true. For the past 12 years, Begich the Third has been a company director, treasurer and secretary of Earthpulse Press.

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