Donald Trump, who told voters he won’t listen to lobbyists, is again giving top jobs to lobbyists, after having relied on lobbyists during his campaign.
Susie Wiles, his new chief of staff, is a former lobbyist for the Pebble Mine project.
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Sen. Dan Sullivan has had nothing to say about the growing scandal regarding Pete Hegseth and his behavior at a 2017 conference that led to a sexual assault complaint, a payment to the woman and a nondisclosure agreement. Hegseth had a two-month-old at the time after an affair. He had just been divorced.
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Gov. Mike Dunleavy says once more it would be great to have a 42-inch gas pipeline from the North Slope to Southcentral, but he offers no details on how to make it happen.
In a memo to legislators under the subject line, “Alaska’s Energy Crisis,” Dunleavy said he hopes that private industry will lead the way.
Read MoreAs predicted last spring before the tax cap election, the Fairbanks school district faces the prospect of major cuts in the next fiscal year of anywhere from $8 million to $32 million, the school board heard Tuesday night.
The financial environment for public education in Alaska is not stable, largely because of inaction at the state level and the lack of leadership from Gov. Mike Dunleavy.
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The Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation is the most important financial institution in Alaska. The flaws in the leadership structure are on full display, with all the power granted to a disconnected governor, still hoping Trump will give him a way out.
The process of selecting trustees for the fund needs to change. Only the Legislature can do that.
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Elon Musk, temporarily on good terms with Donald Trump after spending more than $100 million to help him win, warns that “everyone’s taking a haircut here” and there will be “temporary hardship” if he has his way.
Sen. Dan Sullivan will not say what haircuts and temporary hardships can be expected in Alaska if more than $2 trillion is cut from the federal budget.
But asking Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the way is exactly what the nation needs, according to Sullivan, referring to it as “reinventing government.”
“I mean to me that’s probably one of the most brilliant things I’ve seen that’s come out of the announcements from the incoming administration,” Sullivan told Neil Cavuto of Fox News last week.
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It’s clear that Fox & Friends TV talker Pete Hegseth does not have the bio, the skills, the temperament or the experience to lead the largest department in the U.S. government, contrary to Sen. Dan Sullivan’s assumptions.
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Robert Kennedy Jr., who claims that no vaccines are safe, seems like the change that Americans voted for, according to Sen. Dan Sullivan.
Read MoreThe belated state decision to post an 80-ton limit on the Richardson Highway bridge over the floodway is tantamount to an admission that the state was wrong and that an official action was needed before the Kinross trucks began to roll.
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If Dunleavy was counting on Trump allowing him to announce his hiring for a job in Washington, D.C., Dunleavy got a little ahead of himself Tuesday.
About an hour-and-a-half after promoting an announcement and joint appearance with Dahlstrom, Dunleavy canceled it without explanation.
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