Julie Sande, state commerce commissioner, hasn’t seen fit to reveal the existence of a $3 million state marketing plan to those who look on the state website.
All you can find on the commerce website is a note from late 2023 saying that the state intends to hire someone “to develop an initial marketing plan and advise on strategies to effectively market Alaska.”
Read MoreBy and large, the Dunleavy task force reports have not been translated into state policy because the governor failed to follow through.
Read MoreRandy Ruaro, the executive director of AIDEA, is now claiming that Northern Economics, the Anchorage company hired to conduct a $250,000 “independent” review of AIDEA, failed to complete the study.
AIDEA wants a new contractor to revise the Northern Economics “independent” report so that the economic analysis matches AIDEA’s view of itself.
Read MoreA smart governor, a competent governor, would learn from his mistakes. A smart governor would realize that the problem is not with the school boards, school administrators, teachers and parents that he constantly attempts to belittle.
Read MoreDunleavy called the special session not to deal with his recycled education bill or his recycled plan to create an agriculture department.
He called it as part of a scheme in which he is asking his Republican allies to refuse to show up for work and preserve his vetoes. It’s the most underhanded special session declaration in the state’s history.
Read MoreWe need to hear an explanation from Crum, the governor and the Permanent Fund about whether Crum is advancing a plan to invest state money in this enterprise based on his membership in a mutual admiration society.
Read MoreMillions of Americans would lose health care coverage, the national debt would grow by trillions and billionaires would enjoy big tax cuts, but ignore all of that because Alaska got special treatment.
That’s what Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan want us to believe, that the state with 0.2 percent of the nation’s population is all that matters.
They want us to forget about their responsibility, and our responsibility, to the entire nation.
Read MoreSen. Lisa Murkowski, who had claimed she opposed cutting Medicaid, provided the deciding Senate vote on the Republican plan to slash Medicaid by $1 trillion, add $3.3 trillion to $5.3 trillion to the national debt and extend tax cuts for the wealthiest people in the country.
Read MoreThe Republican Senate approved the $1 trillion cut to Medicaid, the $3.3 trillion increase in debt and the giant tax cut for billionaires Tuesday. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan voted for it.
Murkowski had said many times she opposed Medicaid cuts. But it appears she was lying.
Read MoreTwo of the six Alaska kickbacks granted to Sen. Lisa Murkowski to buy her vote on the GOP/Trump big tax scam cannot be approved with a simple majority vote, the Senate parliamentarian ruled.
Read More
