Kelly Tshibaka tried to be the Great Consolidator of state services during her two-year tenure as administration commissioner under Gov. Mike Dunleavy.
The state has now abandoned much of what she did under the so-called “Alaska Administrative Productivity and Excellence” campaign, a venture that included expensive consulting contracts and never worked as advertised.
Read MoreAaron C. Peterson, 44, who may become Alaska’s next federal judge, signed up with the right-wing Federalist Society this year, a late addition to his resume that suggests he realized it was time to join the right club.
Peterson said he can’t imagine why joining the society, which counts a majority of the Supreme Court as members, would be of any help to him, however.
Read MoreGov. Mike Dunleavy wants a 90 percent property tax cut on gas pipeline facilities for 30 years.
He told legislative leaders last week of his plan, according to this solid report today in the Anchorage Daily News.
Read MoreIt was 35 below when John Binkley pulled out of Prudhoe Bay on a BMW 750cc at 8:30 a.m. on December 2, 1975. He was there to begin an expedition that would take him to the southern tip of South America in 142 days.
Read MoreAaron C. Peterson, who is in line for a lifetime appointment as the next federal judge in Alaska, can’t muster the political courage to admit that Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election.
This doesn’t bode well for his ability to tell the truth or defend the rule of law.
Read MoreDunleavy promised to reveal a secret fiscal plan in January, a scheme that includes no income tax, no sales tax, no increase in oil taxes, no increase in mining taxes, no increase in fish taxes, no nothing. He suggests that businesses that don’t exist yet will somehow fill the gap.
Read MoreSen. Dan Sullivan, Rep. Nick the Third and Gov. Mike Dunleavy should take it upon themselves to read the latest Trump epistle aloud to Alaskans. And after they’ve done that they can say that they believe that Donald Trump can be trusted with America’s nuclear weapons.
Read MoreIt appears that Gov. Mike Dunleavy will leave office the same way he came in, claiming that avoiding new taxes and shrinking government is the way to make Alaska the most competitive state in the nation for new business.
Read MoreGov. Mike Dunleavy has one more chance to propose a responsible state budget, which would end his seven-year streak of December recklessness.
He can continue as he has in the past, proposing a budget with a giant deficit of $1 billion, $2 billion or more, pretending that he is giving legislators and the public a realistic starting point instead of a political scam.
Or he can propose a balanced budget that takes the needs of the state into account and includes a Permanent Fund Dividend the state can afford. Paying for a dividend anywhere close to what Dunleavy claims he really wants would require new taxes, tax increases and lots of politically unpopular choices.
Read MoreSen. Dan Sullivan, who is running for reelection, has absolutely nothing to say about Pete Hegseth and the military strikes on boats in the Caribbean, according to spokeswoman Amanda Coyne.
Coyne told Alaska’s News Source that Sullivan is “already working to get the full set of facts related to the boat strikes in Venezuela.”
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