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Dunleavy administration backs 20,000-acre giveaway to AIDEA

Commentary Dermot Cole -
The state is rushing through a plan to give away 20,000 acres of state land near Houston to the Alaska Industrial Development & Export Authority.
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Big donor to campaign to end open primaries charged in big Medicaid fraud case

Commentary Dermot Cole -
A big political donor has been charged in connection with a $619,000 Medicaid fraud case.
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Veto governor

Cartoon Holly Todd -
At this point, Mike Dunleavy's governing style may be defined less by the bills he signs than by the budgets he vetoes. He's becoming Alaska's veto governor.
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“Alaska voters are savvy”

Cartoon Holly Todd -
The effort to overturn ranked-choice voting and the effort to remove Petersburg's Dan Sullivan from the ballot share an underlying premise: that Alaska voters can't be trusted to figure things out for themselves.
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Alaska brought on a right-wing attorney to defend the decision to remove Dan J. Sullivan from the ballot

Commentary Matt Acuña Buxton -
The lawyer hails from a conservative Lower 48 law firm and helped shield the Republican National Committee from being investigated over its ties to the Jan. 6 insurrection. 
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AKLNG’s ‘razzle dazzle’

Cartoon Holly Todd -
The AKLNG special session continues to grind forward.
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Alaska Republicans are absolutely losing their minds over the other Dan Sullivan

Commentary Matt Acuña Buxton -
When Petersburg Republican Dan J. Sullivan entered the race against Alaska U.S. Sen. Dan S. Sullivan, he felt it was a good way to call out the notoriously constituent-adverse lawmaker.
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AKLNG’s proposed gas contract highlights the project’s underlying challenge: There just aren’t that many Alaskans

Commentary Matt Acuña Buxton -
The AKLNG special session continued this week, giving more clarity on what will be an undeniably difficult project, no matter the subsidy lawmakers ultimately approve.
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Matt Buxton’s definitive way-too-early tier list of Alaska’s candidates for governor

Elections Matt Acuña Buxton -
The filing period for Alaska’s statewide races closed on Monday, setting up an expansive, 17-candidate field for the state’s next governor.
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Risk-averse legislators dismiss the AKLNG ‘razzle dazzle’ to drill down on the giga-project’s details

Commentary Matt Acuña Buxton -
The biggest takeaway from the first full week of hearings on Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s proposed multi-billion-dollar, multi-decade subsidy for the natural gas pipeline project is that the state sure is lucky that lawmakers’ efforts to rush the bill through didn’t pan out.
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