I’ve written many times about the wasteful state contract Gov. Mike Dunleavy has with Washington, D.C. publicist Mary Vought that now pays her $5,000 a month.
No one has ever justified this expenditure, which will soon top $200,000 in total since 2020. Vought’s husband is playing a key role in plotting by Donald Trump to seek revenge on his political enemies if he is elected in 2024.
Read MoreIt took him a long time to get to this point, but Sen. Dan Sullivan has made the right call on Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s obstruction of promotions and transfers for hundreds of military members over an unrelated Pentagon policy about access to abortion.
Read the Congressional Record to see what Sullivan and other GOP senators had to say about five dozen senior military members who are stationed in limbo because of the Alabama senator who likes to be called Coach.
Read MoreLast week at a conference in Saudi Arabia, Gabrielle Rubenstein, one of the six trustees of the Alaska Permanent Fund, predicted that the group would make a fundamental policy shift this week that would transform the fund into a $100 billion operation within three to five years.
Read MoreIn Sen. Dan Sullivan’s quest to create a federal judge to his liking, his questionnaire of leading questions stops just short of asking applicants, “Who’s your favorite Alaska senator?” and “What are the three things you like best about him?”
Read MoreThe Permanent Fund trustees rejected key measures in a proposed strategic plan Monday, declining to raise the investment target rate of return or approve borrowing additional billions to increase private equity investments, the main elements in an attempt to try to speed the growth to a $100 billion fund.
Read MoreDeven Mitchell, the executive director of the Alaska Permanent Fund, should tell Alaskans if he believes the claim on a document prepared by someone on his staff—that the Permanent Fund is harmed by public discussion and should be allowed to meet in secret.
Anyone who believes that should not be working for the Alaska Permanent Fund or serving as a trustee.
Read MoreThe trustees, all appointed by Gov. Mike Dunleavy, are behaving as if speed is essential. They have misread the moment.
Read MoreThe document package just posted in advance of a Monday meeting demonstrates to me that the six trustees of the Permanent Fund have no business in trying to approve a new strategic plan that incorporates fundamental changes in policy. The Legislature and the public must be more involved.
Read MoreNo one wants to admit that the Dunleavy administration screwed this up big time. No one wants to admit how easy it would have been to fix this problem in state regulation months or years ago by amending the language to legalize the Kinross trucks on Peger Road and the Johansen Expressway.
Read MoreWith Vic’s passing at 99, the key players are all gone now, though we are left with a priceless record that will allow future generations to hear directly from those who helped create the state.
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