Rep. Nick Begich the Third and Sen. Dan Sullivan reversed themselves on releasing the Epstein files this week, though both claimed it was what they always wanted.
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Gov. Mike Dunleavy, never one to pass up a chance to send money Outside, is paying $350,000 for a report on why Adam Crum decided to order a $50 million investment in DigitalBridge before Crum quit his state job to run for governor.
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A competent attorney general would recognize a giant conflict of interest in the matter of AG Stephen Cox and his interrogation of the Anchorage school district over a Hillsdale College booklet.
He and his wife are helping start the Thomas More Classical School in Anchorage, “with help and support from Hillsdale College and its Hillsdale College K-12 Education Office.”
He shouldn’t be involved with anything in the his state job that deals with Hillsdale College..
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Sen. Dan Sullivan voted to accept a $500,000 gift to himself Monday, but his spokeswoman now says he won’t make a move to collect it.
It appears he is trying to say that he didn’t know he was voting to allow himself to collect $500,000 simply by filing a lawsuit.
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So why did The Third refuse to sign the U.S. House discharge petition on the Epstein files? The picture above is worth 1,000 words.
Read MoreGiven 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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