Monthly Archives: September, 2016
Bright, shiny objects: Farmers market experiment fail? Boss Vinnie
GOVERNOR'S TRIP TO QATAR, PLUS KOREA AND SINGAPORE
Governor Bill Walker and an entourage that includes Alaska Gasline Development Corporation President Keith Meyer will hit...
Hiring freeze memo didn’t reach these departments
MARKETING DIRECTORS, RESEARCH ANALYSTS, ECONOMISTS 'ESSENTIAL IN PROTECTING LIFE'
With a budget crisis looming, Alaska legislative majority leaders signed a letter to the new governor of...
Bright, shiny objects: What hiring freeze?
'ESSENTIAL' JOBS AT THE STATE
Among the many jobs being advertised and filled at the state of Alaska, we have to pick on a couple...
BP holds firm, won’t give Walker & Co. info
BP TO GOV: CAN'T HELP YOU, BRO'
In a letter hand-delivered to the Division of Oil and Gas at the Department of Natural Resources on...
Miller time, but has he missed something?
CAN JOE MILLER REALLY BE PRO-CHOICE?
The Alaska Republican Party issued a statement today concerning Joe Miller filing as a Libertarian for U.S. Senate.
“Lisa Murkowski received...
Nageak down by just four votes
The Division of Elections has issued the official results, and in the far-north District 40, Democrat Dean Westlake is ahead of Democrat Representative Ben...
Governor sues Exxon through his new attorney general
SHOCKER: EXXON KNEW THE CLIMATE IS CHANGING?
BY FRANK MCQUEARY
What if you read the headline, "Alaska's governor supports stopping ANWR development"?
You'd be understandably shocked. But by...
Is this a naked grab on the Permanent Fund?
10 QUESTIONS ABOUT GOV. WALKER'S 'DISTRESSED DEBT'
Mere mortals are having a difficult time understanding why Alaska's Permanent Fund should purchase debt the State of Alaska owes a...
Bright, shiny objects: State fair, apology demand, pumpkin spice
APOLOGIZE! NOW DO IT AGAIN!
Although the Tanana Valley Fair was browbeat into apologizing to a pair of Native/black rappers for cutting their performance short due to...
What we derived from the Permanent Fund board meeting
ALASKA PERMANENT FUND TO BUY DEBT FROM STATE OF ALASKA?
Craig Richards, the former attorney general of Alaska and the governor's closest ally, wasted no time...