In a fitting capstone to the bungling of state finances that has marked Dunleavyland, the state has dumped the $50 million long-term investment made by former Revenue Commissioner Adam Crum at a loss of nearly $860,000.
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AG Stephen Cox, ignoring the conflict of interest created when he gave a $350,000 no-bid contract to a former employer, claims to have found conflicts of interest with two law firms targeted by right wing interests because they have lawyers who make political donations to Democrats.
Cox claims the action has nothing to do with politics.
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The topic for today’s edition of Things Dan Sulivan is afraid to talk about: Greenland.
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski, whose endorsement of Sen. Dan Sullivan set a world record for a lack of enthusiasm, correctly called out the Trump administration for the criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell for failing to cut interest rates as much as Trump wants.
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Alaska lobbyist Ashley Reed, who has many clients who pay him a great deal of money to influence the state government on their behalf, gets $5,000 a month from Armstrong to claim that Alaska taxes are too high.
“If Hildebrand takes his money down there, and Bill, we don't have much left, except ConocoPhillips,” Reed said.
Such scare tactics have often worked in the past.
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The Trump praise-a-thon was largely a political exercise with little tie to the actual investment of the $100 billion Trump claims the companies will put up. For all their talk, Armstrong and Hildebrand are not ready to risk billions in one of the riskiest places in the world.
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Sen. Dan Sullivan and spokeswoman Amanda Coyne were afraid to say anything to Alaskans Thursday about Trump’s dumb plan to take Greenland, attacking the island if necessary.
This speaks volumes about Sullivan’s lack of political courage.
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Siding with Trump, as he always does, Sullivan voted to prevent debate on a resolution that would require Congress to approve military action against Venezuela.
Read MoreNorthern Economics completed an “independent” $250,000 economic analysis of AIDEA nearly two years ago and was paid in full, but AIDEA says the report has never been released because the contractor did not finish it. Now comes news that the company has been paid $18,434 more to revise it.
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Former Rep. Mary Peltola is likely to run against Sen. Dan Sullivan for the U.S. Senate with an announcement expected this month, the news website Axios reported Tuesday.
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