The first thing Sen. Dan Sullivan asked Lee Zeldin, nominated to head the EPA, is if he would “commit to me to come up to Alaska with me, bring your family, we can do some fishing maybe after you see all the important elements of Alaska. Big mountains.”
Sullivan, who will support all Trump nominees, always asks cabinet nominees to take junkets to Alaska. No real questions asked or answered.
Read MoreGov. Mike Dunleavy’s PR man objects to a headline that appeared here on January 10: “Dunleavy claims salary study drafts have been tossed, so they are not public records.”
No records have been tossed, the Dunleavy word police told a public radio reporter. The draft copies have simply not been retained.
I have rewritten the headline to follow the edict from above: “Dunleavy claims salary study drafts have not been retained, so they are not public records.”
Read MoreAlaskans should see the $1 million results of a state salary research report that Gov. Mike Dunleavy refuses to release, according to a petition circulated by the Alaska State Employees Association.
Among other things, ASEA says it is “truly shocking” that the governor’s office claims that drafts of the report it received from the contractor have been disposed of, so they are no longer public records.
Read MoreLook for a widespread public school ban in 2025 on the student use of “cell phones, smartwatches, tablets, and gaming devices” during the school day.
A proposed policy says: “Students are prohibited from accessing devices or wearing device accessories during the school day unless explicitly authorized for classroom use. Devices and accessories must be stored in lockers, backpacks, or as directed by the school district. The district may prohibit possession of devices and accessories on school property.”
Read MoreSen. Dan Sullivan began his confirmation hearing questions of Trump Defense Secretary Nominee Pete Hegseth with a bonehead quiz about Billy Mitchell, followed by a series of anti-Biden cheap shots framed as questions that Sullivan, Trump and Hegseth agree upon.
Read MoreThe endless caterwauling about how we need to increase mining in Alaska for national security reasons is deceptive.
Read MoreIn an all-too-familiar pattern with the Dunleavy administration, the contract was extended and extended again to $450,000, nine times the amount claimed on August 19 as sufficient.
Read MoreIn response to a public records request I submitted, the governor’s office says that while it once had other draft reports of the study, it does not have them any longer.
As an excuse, this is a few steps shy of “The dog ate my homework.” George Costanza could do better.
Read MoreNick Begich the Third, eager to please Donald Trump, is excited about the concept of turning Greenland into U.S. property.
Begich is the son of Nick Begich Jr., who now self-identifies as Nick Begich Sr., and the nephew of former Sen. Mark Begich and former state Sen. Tom Begich.
Now the leader of the Begich political family in Alaska, Nick the Third is a sudden convert to the Trump plan to take control of Greenland.
Read MoreStripped of double-talk, what’s happening is far less significant than the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation claims. The real “milestone,” if there is one, is that the state has agreed to pay a major pipeline company up to $50 million to complete the next stage of pipeline planning work, the so-called front end engineering and design. That work is necessary to get updated cost estimates.
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