He became a member of the Alaska Bar Association three months ago and was not registered to vote in Alaska as of this past May, Sen. Bill Wielechowski wrote on Facebook after Dunleavy named Cox AG. His appointment will be subject to legislative confirmation.
Read MoreThe state rocket-launching corporation hopes to create a 1,100-mile rocket test range from Kodiak Island to Adak Island in the Aleutians to test hypersonic weapons and provide a new location to evaluate advanced missiles for the military.
Read MoreThe state Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development has finally updated its website to mention the “Alaska Business Initiative,” a state-funded marketing and public relations effort.
Read MoreThe leader of South Korea, who said in June he would crawl between President Trump’s legs if he had to, took first place in the flattery competition Monday, praising Trump as one of the all-time greats. After taking it all in, Trump rambled and ranted at length, mixing lies about renewable energy and forgetting that a proposed Alaska project would export natural gas, not oil.
Read MoreI want to deal here not with the enormous technical, political and ethical questions, but with the simplest element of this story, something that everyone can understand—the flimsy origins of the name Golden Dome.
The choice does not reveal solid planning or thought, but an intellectual void that emerged from a trademark violation and somehow manages to massage Trump’s gold obsession.
Read MoreAttorney General Tregarrick Taylor, who has resigned and will likely join the swollen field of candidates for governor, is pandering for all he’s worth on his way out the door.
Taylor says he wants a grand jury to investigate corruption in his department, based on a new process set up in July and a blanket complaint that attacks the entire department. Any complaints about corruption in the department will be referred to independent prosecutors, he says.
Almost anyone who claims there is corruption in state government will discover that the Department of Law will sign off on the claims with little or no thought, he said.
Read MoreKeeping the website under wraps is not a good way to tell the world the state is open for business. In fact, it communicates the message that the state is not open for business. And that the commerce department is out to lunch.
Read MoreMarc Thiessen, a right-wing sage at the Washington Post, provided many specifics last week in a column headlined “How Trump can win in Alaska: The president has the right plan for his summit with Vladimir Putin on Ukraine.”
Almost every line in his column was wrong, except for this one, “Putin’s goal is to buy more time.”
Read MoreAs more than $1 billion worth of U.S. military aircraft flew over Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson, Sullivan recorded the scene on his phone and could be heard saying to himself, “Take that Vladimir,” as Putin strolled over the red carpet.
Read MoreAdam Crum, who has been running for governor for months as a state employee, claims he understands the “function of government, the function of the Legislature, the important things to the private sector, so I'll have a functioning government up and running faster than anybody else.”
But he doesn’t seen to understand one of the core functions of the state Department of Revenue, where he was commissioner until last week.
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