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Dermot Cole

Dermot Cole
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Dermot Cole has worked as a newspaper reporter, columnist and author in Alaska for more than 40 years. Support his work here.

Willow project will reduce state oil tax income by $1 billion to $1.6 billion over a decade, reports say

This article was republished with permission from dermotcole.com. From the Anchorage Daily News Monday after action by the Biden administration approving the Willow oil project...

Sen. Dan Sullivan says the oil companies never get the thanks they deserve

This article was republished with permission from dermotcole.com. A year ago, Sen. Dan Sullivan took his role as a nationalistic cheerleader for the fossil fuel...

Sen. Dan Sullivan won’t say whether he would support Trump if the former president is indicted

This article was published with permission from dermotcole.com. In the infamous Pebble tapes from 2020, the chief executive of the proposed mine portrayed Sen. Dan...

State changed its bridge replacement plans to accommodate Kinross mine plan

This article was republished with permission from dermotcole.com. The Dunleavy administration hadn’t planned to move ahead this soon with the replacement of five major bridges...

State secretly invested in Three Bears grocery chain, electric cargo ships, seaweed and more through Permanent Fund

This article was republished with permission from dermotcole.com. A year ago the news broke that an investment firm called Westward Partners had purchased the Three...

Alaska Policy Forum fails again with its magic cure-all for public education

This article was republished with permission from dermotcole.com. The Alaska Policy Forum has long peddled the claim that the easy cure-all for public education in...

Sen. Dan Sullivan refused to allow FCC nominee to answer his questions, then accuses her of filibustering

This story was republished with permission from dermotcole.com. Sen. Dan Sullivan, at his boarding-school whiniest, comes across as if someone took his puppy in his...

Dunleavy’s staff hides his trip to a rodeo, hunting conference from Alaskans during balloon incident

This article was republished with permission from dermotcole.com. The location of the unidentified former flying object shot down over northern Alaska was not the only...

Bronson is ‘unqualified, incompetent and out of his depth,’ ADN says

This article is republished from www.dermotcole.com with permission. The Anchorage Daily News says Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson has proven himself to be “unqualified, incompetent and...

Right-wing Republican legislator puts Donna Arduin on state payroll at $45 an hour

This story was republished from www.dermotcole.com with permission. The former temporary budget director for Gov. Mike Dunleavy is back, hired by Rep. Ben Carpenter, the...

Tshibaka sets up campaign group to attack ranked choice voting as anti-democratic

This story is republished from dermotcole.com with permission. Kelly Tshibaka, who may run against Rep. Mary Peltola for Congress, is trying to keep herself in the public eye...

Legislature to study how money grows on trees, while Dunleavy administration refuses to explain $7 billion claim

This story is republished from dermotcole.com with permission. The Dunleavy administration has refused to explain how it intends to generate $7 billion in new revenue...

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