Posted by Jeanne Devon on May 16, 2019 · 3 Comments
The End is Just the Beginning… DAY 122 IS DAY 1 The regular legislative session is over. The constitution says that the 121st day shall be the last! Unless of course they extend it for 10 days. Or unless someone calls a special session to deal with particular legislation, which is exactly what happened last night. Before legislators gaveled out, or had the chance to call themselves back to special session, Gov. Mike Dunleavy summoned the press to tell them that he’d be calling a special session on the crime bill, the PFD, and the budget. No…
Category Alaska, Alaska Legislature, Alaska Politicos, Democrats, Headlines, Mat Su, Republicans, TALL Tales from Juneau · Tags Alaska, Alaska House Minority, Americans for Prosperity Alaska, Austin Baird, Jeff Landfield, Koch Brothers, Mary Ann Pruitt, Mike Dunleavy, Rep. Bryce Edgmon, Rep. Lance Pruitt
Posted by Jeanne Devon on April 3, 2019 · 4 Comments
TALL TALES from Juneau Eyes on the Dunleavy/Babcock Administration The End of the Road(show) That’s all, folks! The Dunleavy/Americans for Prosperity/Koch brothers’ roadshow hit the end of the road. Let’s just say it didn’t go quite as the sponsors or the governor had hoped. After a giant protest and a RECALL DUNLEAVY banner in Anchorage, and a schooling in civic engagement in Nome, the roadshow had its final stops in Fairbanks and Wasilla. There were notably zero stops in Southeast where the governor plans to gut the Marine Highway system. THE ROAD SHOW, FAIRBANKS – THE 400 Fairbanks was having…
Category Alaska, Alaska Board of Game, Alaska Politicos, Fish & Wildlife, Headlines, Mat Su, Mike Dunleavy, Native issues, Oil & Gas, Public Safety, Sean Parnell, TALL Tales from Juneau · Tags Al Barrette, Alaska Psychiatric Institute, Amanda Price, Americans for Prosperity Alaska, Craig Tuten, Dermot Cole, Donna Arduin, Governor Mike Dunleavy, Jeff Landfield, John Aronno, Koch Brothers, Matt Buxton
Posted by Jeanne Devon on March 29, 2019 · 3 Comments
TALL TALES from Juneau Eyes on the Dunleavy/Babcock Administration In which the governor meets Alaska Knock, knock. It’s Anchorage! (Photo courtesy of John Aronno, AK Ledger) 1-2-3 JUMP! What a week. I suppose we’d better just jump right in to the deep end of the pool. The governor has without a doubt violated his oath to uphold the Constitution of the State of Alaska. And he’s still doing it right now. He had 45 days to appoint a Superior Court Judge to a vacant seat in Palmer. See Article IV, section 5. And he didn’t. It wasn’t an oversight….
Posted by Jeanne Devon on August 30, 2014 · 5 Comments
Remember 1984? The book, not the year. You probably read it in high school. It’s a dystopian novel, published in 1949, that takes place in a world of perpetual manufactured war, state sponsored torture, omnipresent and intrusive government surveillance, and propaganda posing as news, all controlled by an elite and privileged “Inner Party” bent on squashing independent thinking and dissent in order to keep itself in power. The whole shebang is controlled by a powerful, merciless entity called “Big Brother,” who may or may not be just one person. No really, it’s just a novel. The hero of the story,…
Category Alaska, Alaska Politicos, Alaska Senate Race, Election 2014, Elections, Environment, Ethics, Headlines, Mark Begich, Ohio Dan Sullivan, Oil & Gas, Republicans, Skulduggery, Strategery, Supreme Court · Tags Alaska elections, Alaska Senate Race, Americans for Prosperity Alaska, Dan Sullivan Americans for Prosperity, Dan Sullivan for Senate, Dan Sullivan Koch Brothers, Flint Hills Refinery, Koch brothers Alaska, Koch Industries, Mark Begich for Senate