Legislative leaders have confirmed some key details of reporting about a $50 million long-term investment by the Department of Revenue with money from the Constitutional Budget Reserve that should be kept in short-term investments because it could soon be needed to pay for state operations.
Read MoreSen. Dan Sullivan is repeating the lie by Donald Trump and other Republicans that Senate Democrats shut down the government because they want “Medicaid for illegals” in the United States.
“Look at what they want,” he said on Hugh Hewitt’s right-wing radio show, “A trillion dollars of spending in the next four weeks. Once again, Medicaid for illegals.”
Read MoreSen. Dan Sullivan had high praise for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s macho man speech to military leaders assembled from around the world at great expense.
But Sullivan couldn’t move a muscle to take on Donald Trump’s plan to use the military to fight his political opponents in the United States and Trump’s reckless claim about the “enemy within.”
Read MoreIn a form letter to Alaskans who took issue with the Qatari bribe, Sullivan said he has unidentified “doubts” about accepting gifts from Qatar, which has a history of backing terrorists groups like Hamas, but all of the legal standards for accepting the gift “have been met in this case.”
Read MoreWith Trump now using the Department of Justice for political retribution against his enemies and destroying the rule of law, there are lots of questions that guys like Sullivan should be asking.
But Sullivan, who wants to be reelected, is not up to the challenge.
Read MoreGlenfarne now says that it won’t reveal how much the proposed gas pipeline cost has climbed beyond the outdated $44 billion estimate.
Only a pipeline salesman with little experience in Alaska would think this is a good idea.
Read MoreIn the idiotic slogan sweepstakes, the Alaska Republican Party has a solid entry with “American oil from Alaskan soil,” facing stiff competition from “Energy Dominance,” “The Road to Energy Dominance Runs through Alaska” and “Drill Baby Drill.”
The latest survey of oil firms by the Dallas Federal Reserve includes comments from oil executives that should worry anyone who quotes an idiotic slogan during what Gov. Mike Dunleavy says is the “Golden Age of Alaska.”
Read MoreThe other day I wrote here about how Fairbanks assembly candidates Barbara Haney and Brett Rotermund tried to shut down the Carlson Center this year, claiming that the borough can’t afford to keep it.
Haney and Rotermund also voted to shut down the Mary Siah Recreation Center in a spring budget meeting, following the lead of assembly member Tammie Wilson, who is not on the ballot this year.
Read MoreRetired University of Alaska Anchorage economist Gunnar Knapp says it better than I have in a great column published by the Anchorage Daily News—the main job of Alaska’s Congressional delegation at the moment is not the time-honored practice of getting as much money as possible and promoting resource development.
He wrote this before the news broke about Tom Homan and the $50,000 bag of cash or the accidental message from Donald Trump ordering his attorney general to prosecute Trump’s political enemies.
Read MorePatrick Roach, 49, is running against Barbara Haney for a seat on the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly.
Roach, who has lived in Alaska for 30 years, is a former teacher who became a lawyer 7 years ago and works as a public defender.
With him on the assembly, I expect that we will not have to endure a repeat of Haney’s arguments this year that the borough should close the Carlson Center.
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