There are lots of things I could write about today, but I’ve decided to adhere to the KISS theory and just say thanks.
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Attorney General Stephen Cox, who once worked for Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr, LLP, gave the Washington, D.C. law firm a $350,000 no-bid contract to review the DigitalBridge investment by Adam Crum.
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Sen. Dan Sullivan, who never criticizes Donald Trump, is sending Alaskans a form letter claiming the demolition of the East Wing of the White House was not demolition but renovation.
Read MoreKelly 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.
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Aaron 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.
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Gov. 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.
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It 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.
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Aaron 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.
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Dunleavy 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.
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Sen. 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.
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