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AIDEA nows says it doesn’t need $50 million for gas line study

Juneau Sen. Jesse Kiehl said something not long ago about how the job of a legislator is often to say no.

Musk attacks federal agency that funds pro-democracy group led by Sen. Dan Sullivan

Elon Musk claims he has shut down a U.S. agency that bankrolls the International Republican Institute, a organization headed by Sen. Dan Sullivan.

Sullivan in hiding on Trump’s blanket pardon of Jan. 6 criminals

Sen. Murkowski: “I do fear the message that is sent to these great men and women that stood by us.”

Sullivan, Begich give timid reply to Trump’s unilateral Denali name change

This story was originally published by Dermot Cole, Reporting From Alaska. Sen. Dan Sullivan and Rep. Nick Begich the Third had a timid response to...

AIDEA made its $50 million gasline study pledge before getting legislative approval

The Alaska Gasline Development Corporation can’t find a private company willing to pay $50 million for the final design and engineering work on a proposed gas pipeline unless there is a pledge to get that money back from the state.

Dunleavy allies tap AIDEA slush fund for $50 million for gas pipeline study, bypassing the Legislature

Two state-owned corporations that don’t act without the blessing of Gov. Mike Dunleavy have cooked up a plan to tap into a slush fund to provide a $50 million guarantee to pay for a gasline study.

AIDEA spent $250,000 for an independent economic analysis of AIDEA. AIDEA refuses to release the report.

This story was originally published in Reporting From Alaska. The Alaska Industrial Development & Export Authority spent $250,000 of public money to complete an independent...

‘One of the most brilliant things,’ Sullivan says of plan to have Elon Musk slash the federal government

This story was originally published in Reporting From Alaska. The world’s richest man claims he can find ways to cut at least $2 trillion from the annual...

Incompetence in the Dunleavy administration, former Rep. Tom McKay edition

Gov. Mike Dunleavy tried to reward Anchorage Rep. Tom McKay, one of his political allies, with a state job that would give him a fatter paycheck.

Dunleavy spent $9,640 in state funds on partisan political ads spreading half-truths

Gov. Mike Dunleavy has spent $9,640 of state money on partisan political ads, many of which referred to “petitions'“ on education reform and parental rights.

No, the state isn’t pleased with the loss of $52 million in potential federal funds

The state missed out on more than $50 million in federal funding for highway projects because of the continuing troubles with the handling of transportation planning..

Judicial emergency in Alaska, while Murkowski and Sullivan stick to secrecy

A judicial emergency is assumed to exist in “any court with more than one authorized judgeship and only one active judge.”

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