Alaska Attorney General Stephen Cox appears to think that his main job as attorney general is to insert himself into national politics, often on cases that have little to do with Alaska. In September alone he put Alaska’s name on two dozen amicus briefs generated by Republican attorneys general.
He has hired a lawyer from Outside with no Alaska experience to represent the state in courts across the country.
Read MoreDunleavy said that Crum “pursued investment opportunities with several other potential investment firms,” but the negotiations were halted. When were the negotiations halted and why?
I suspect that one of the so-called opportunities was related to Crum’s decision to use his office last spring to promote a new private investment fund called the “Frontier Economic Fund.”
Read MoreTyson Gallagher, Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s chief of staff, had the Dunleavy spokesman, Jeff Turner, tell me that he doesn’t know how much the state has agreed to pay a Washington, D.C. law firm to review the DigitalBridge contract.
Ask Department of Law spokeswoman Patty Sullivan, he said. The Department of Law spokeswoman said in 10 business days she would have some kind of reply.
The Anchorage Daily News had no better luck from the Dunleavy transparency team.
Read MoreSens. Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, Rep. Nick Begich the Third and Gov. Mike Dunleavy gushed with effusive praise for Donald Trump’s social media post saying he had approved a disaster declaration for Western Alaska. But maybe they should withhold their praise until they see if FEMA delivers.
Read MoreSen. Dan Sullivan, eager to curry favor with Donald Trump, is calling for the head of career prosecutor Jack Smith, claiming to be a fellow victim.
Smith is the special counsel who investigated Trump’s attempt to overthrow the government after losing the 2020 election. Senate Republicans, including Sullivan, have joined Trump’s campaign to get revenge on Smith, who secured two indictments.
Read MoreThe stockholders of Trilogy Metals, including some billionaire investors, should help pay for the cost of the 211-mile private road off the Dalton Highway that would give an immense boost to the value of their mining claims.
Read MoreSuzanne Downing has failed to correct her false statement that MSNBC used protest footage from 2017 and claimed it was taken Saturday in Boston at the No Kings protest. This was a lie spread by artificial intelligence and accepted by her without question.
Read MoreAlaska politicians are asking that the federal government cover the entire cost of emergency assistance, suggesting that the state with an $83 billion Permanent Fund can’t afford to put up a dime to respond to the Western Alaska disaster. Everything the state is doing now should be reimbursed by the feds, they claim.
“In light of the extraordinary circumstances, and consistent with the action taken following Typhoon Merbok, we also request that the administration authorize a 100 percent federal cost share for emergency work during this recovery,” Sullivan, Murkowski and Begich III wrote to Trump.
Read MoreWillie Hensley, a board member of Trilogy Metals, sold 100,000 shares the same day he bought them, making more than $400,000 on those transactions—two days after Trump said he would put $35 million into the Ambler mining promotion—according to a document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Read More“In sum: an immense disaster, one that’s wrought deep trauma on Western Alaska’s Indigenous residents and that’s raising existential questions about the future of their low-lying communities amid a changing climate and a tightening state budget.”
“The region sits on a broad, dead-flat plain next to the Bering Sea, and weather experts say they expect warming ocean temperatures to fuel more storms like the typhoon — which came just three years after another fall storm caused widespread damage.”——-Nat Herz, Northern Journal.
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