President Trump wants to take over the U.S. Postal Service and fire the bipartisan postal review board, the Washington Post reported Thursday night.
Alaska has more to lose than anywhere else in the country if this happens because the bypass mail subsidy program, a central element in Alaska commerce, would certainly be at risk of elimination once again.
Read MoreRep. Nick Begich the Third doesn’t get it. The DOGE boys are not under attack because some of them are young.
This is not about the age. It’s about incompetence and lies. Nick the Third has become a regular conduit for those lies.
Read MoreSen. Dan Sullivan took a strong stand this week to support the U.S. troops who fought and died on Iwo Jima. No one in Congress will oppose the resolution he co-sponsored with about 20 other senators.
Trump is using Putin talking points. He has abandoned Ukraine.
Sullivan has either flipped his position to side with Musk/Trump or he is afraid to cross his leaders about the betrayal of Ukraine.
Read MoreRep. Nick Begich the Third, who claims to be a technology whiz, is mechanically repeating the lies of co-president Elon Musk.
One of the latest is Begich promoting the Musk lie that millions of people over 100 are collecting Social Security.
Read MoreThis week the Dunleavy administration is going to officially abandon the effort to give AIDEA—which has plenty of cash reserves—the $50 million, Randy Ruaro, the head of AIDEA, told the Senate Finance Committee Monday.
The reality of this situation is that there was no chance the Legislature was ever going to approve the $50 million request from Dunleavy because AIDEA has hundreds of millions it can draw upon. AIDEA is led by a former Dunleavy employee and a board of Dunleavy supporters.
Read MoreWhile the $250,000 has already been spent, AIDEA is now promising to pay for additional “time and expenses” to revise the “independent” study by Northern Economics in ways to suit AIDEA.
This is no longer an “independent” analysis, based on the latest amendment. AIDEA is deciding what “areas to highlight.”
Read MoreSen. Dan Sullivan, chairman of the International Republican Institute, should have a lot to say about Elon Musk shutting down most of the institute’s operations, but he doesn’t.
Read MoreThe Permanent Fund claimed at first that all information about the investments made by McKinley and Barings were secret, including the names of the companies. The state claimed that it would be entirely up to the two financial management companies to decide what Alaskans would be allowed to know.
As I wrote here on December 6., 2021: “The real danger is that secrecy can be a tool to hide public investments from the public to avoid controversy and public discussion. It can also be a tool that allows political influence to decide who gets the benefit of state money.”
Read MoreQuestioned on CNBC if he was trying to dream up ways to defend outlandish schemes from Trump, economic adviser Kevin Hassett claimed that making Canada the 51st state is not outlandish at all.
Hassett didn’t sound like a guy with a doctorate in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He sounded like a dropout from Trump University.
No one believes that Canada is going to become the 51st state, but the price that supplicants pay to pacify and please the playground bully is to tell him he is always right about everything and call him “Sir.”
Read MoreThe job of saying no to $50 million for the Alaska Industrial Development & Export Authority has gotten a lot easier than anyone expected.
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