ANCHORAGE: After signing the two largest budgets in state history and taking Alaska from a $5 billion surplus to a $2 billion deficit, Sean Parnell is bragging about his fiscal record. In a fundraising email remarkable for its unintended irony, Parnell pats himself on the back for cutting state spending, when the state’s operating budget […]
In a memorandum to Gary Folger, the Commissioner of the Department of Public Safety, dated May 22, 2014, Alaska’s Governor Sean Parnell directed to Department of Public Safety to pay the health insurance premiums for the survivors of DPS employees killed in the line of duty. The health insurance premiums will be paid for the […]
Fairbanks, Alaska – Representative Eric Feige, R-Chickaloon, offered the following comments Thursday after the signing of Senate Bill 138 by Governor Sean Parnell. “The gas line bill that passed the Legislature holds the best chance yet for monetizing Alaska’s North Slope gas resources. We should move ahead with eyes wide open, but we should definitely […]
Yesterday, former Governor Sarah Palin made her return to Alaska politics on the Bob and Mark Show, coming out strongly in defense of the oil tax system she helped to create, Alaska’s Clear and Equitable Share. ACES was designed to provide Alaskans with a fair share of the state’s oil wealth, after a decade in […]