Given what we have just seen with inflation pushing up the cost of the Willow project to $9 billion, AIDEA needs to revise its guesswork on how much the Ambler road would cost. It won’t be $850 million.
Read MoreEnough already with the latest right-wing hysteria campaign in Alaska ginned up by the Alaska Republican Party—the charge that the Anchorage school district doesn’t believe in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and is telling students to do the same.
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Sen. Dan Sullivan and seven other GOP senators would be able to try to pocket $500,000 from the federal government under an outrageous retroactive provision hidden by Republicans in the measure to reopen the government.
Read MoreThe announcement from ConocoPhillips last week that the cost of the Willow project has increased to $9 billion means that state revenues in future years will be lower for longer.
This will add to the Dunleavy deficit projections unless the governor abandons the practice he adopted in the aftermath of the recall movement, ignoring his responsibility and forcing the Legislature to balance the budget.
ConocoPhillips now says the Willow project, about half finished, will cost between $8.5 billion and $9 billion, with oil expected to flow in early 2029.
Read MoreHoward Lutnick and Scott Bessent, two of the obsequious Yes Men in the Trump cabinet, have repeatedly spread the fantasy that Trump will be able to order Japan and Korea, among others, to pay for the giant Alaska LNG project, which could cost upwards of $70 billion.
It appears someone forgot to tell the Japanese and the Koreans.
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Sen. Dan Sullivan, who is campaigning for reelection, refuses to admit that he is part of the problem in Washington, D.C.
He won’t get away with it.
It’s obvious that while Sullivan likes to complain about the “Schumer Shutdown,” it’s also the “Sullivan shutdown.”
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The exemption for Alaska Natives from the new Medicaid and SNAP work requirements allows Alaska’s Republican congressional delegation to stand before AFN and claim a great political victory from the rules the Republicans insist must apply to other Alaskans because they are “common sense.”
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Asked to provide examples of his writing and editing experience, Aaron C. Peterson, the Sullivan/Trump choice for the federal bench in Alaska, came up with 11 state press releases and a 2005 letter to the editor in which he attacked Democrats and claimed there was not an obesity epidemic in the U.S.
Read More“Maybe Congress isn’t entirely comatose,” the right-wing Wall Street Journal editors say in an editorial praising Sen. Lisa Murkowski and four other Republicans who joined with Democrats to protest Trump tariff tantrums. Sen. Dan Sullivan can be found in the comatose section.
Read MoreSen. Bill Wielechowski is calling on the suit-happy Dunleavy administration to back a legal claim by 25 states that the Trump administration is violating the law by withholding food assistance money for political purposes.
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