Yesterday afternoon I understand an Alaska Republican Party official used a meeting I regularly attend — but did not yesterday — to go negative about me.
Not that he was very creative in doing so. Claiming to have done “opposition research,” he appears simply to have duplicated the same script that already had been offered about a month ago to Amanda Coyne, probably the best of Alaska’s political columnists.
Here was her response: Continue reading
Why Alaska Needs to Reduce State Spending (and how to do it) (from the October 2013 Alaska Business Monthly)
Based on state Office of Management and Budget data, over the last decade annual state government general fund spending—operating and capital combined—has nearly tripled, from roughly $2.3 billion in FY 2004 to a now-projected $7.1 billion for FY 2014.
Over the same period, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) has only increased by 27 percent. Continue reading →
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