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Reporting From Alaska- Glenfarne should get no tax break unless Fairbanks gets a pipeline connection
2+ hour, 47+ min ago (574+ words) The Dunleavy administration is now saying that a gas line spur to connect Fairbanks to the proposed LNG export project would cost about $250 million. Fairbanks consumers and utilities would have to pay the $250 million under the scheme that Gov. Mike…...
Reporting From Alaska- AG Cox and his reckless attack on Anchorage school board
4+ day, 16+ hour ago (989+ words) AG Stephen Cox didn't bother to check the facts before denouncing the Anchorage school board last fall, treating lies from a right-wing blog as accurate. Temporary Attorney General Stephen Cox didn't tell the straight story Thursday about the terrible judgement…...
Reporting From Alaska- Local governments would collect nothing from gas line for years under Dunleavy plan
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (235+ words) The Dunleavy administration says that local governments could get nothing in taxes for up to 10 years from the proposed gas pipeline. Or the governments would start to collect relatively small amounts as soon as the pipeline carries at least 1 billion…...
Reporting From Alaska- AIDEA discovers reasons to keep $268, 000 study secret
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (405+ words) The "robust, independent analysis" of AIDEA, completed in early 2024, has been kept secret. It was three weeks ago that Randy Ruaro, the executive director of the Alaska Industrial Development & Export Authority, told Alaska legislators that he knew of "no reason…...
Reporting From Alaska- It's essential to fix this Permanent Fund oversight
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1032+ words) Legislative oversight was high on the list of priorities for the lawmakers who led the effort to get the Alaska Permanent Fund up and running after voters created the savings account 50 years ago. "We want insulation without isolation," is how…...
Reporting From Alaska- Pearl Creek charter will widen gap between 'haves and have-nots"
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1199+ words) The Alaska State Board of Education, made up of Dunleavy appointees, will vote on whether to approve the Pearl Creek charter school over the objections of the Fairbanks North Star Borough School Board. Here is the 620-page packet on the…...
Reporting From Alaska- Dunleavy's broken tax pledge collides with reality
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (806+ words) Regarding his opposition to new taxes in Alaska, Mike Dunleavy said everything except "Read my lips." He made it clear for more than a decade that he opposed new taxes'a position he reversed last month. His staff produced this sanctimonious…...