According to his State of the State address, Gov. Mike Dunleavy thinks Alaska needs more people. Well, I have a few suggestions for him:
Maybe quit gutting vital institutions like the University of Alaska and our public schools? What ambitious young professional couple wants to move thousands of miles just so they can raise their kids in a state too cheap to educate them properlyMaybe quit chasing moonbeams like carbon offsets, elitism, and “glamping” and instead focus on how to get the snow plowed after the next blizzard? Who wants to live in a state that can’t keep its roads in drivable condition?Maybe fix the Medicaid and food-stamp boondoggles? Who wants to move to a heartless state that neglects its poor?
Maybe put some teeth into our environmental laws and regulations? Who wants to move to a place that lands fifth from the bottom in the U.S. News & World Report’s state environmental rankings?
Maybe give Dave Bronson one of those magical state jobs that’s all title and no work, so he’ll resign as Anchorage mayor and we can replace him with someone competent? Who wants to come to a state where a toxic trifecta of belligerence, ignorance and arrogance is rapidly turning its biggest city into a rotting, rundown embarrassment to American civilization?
Maybe realize that every governor’s first and most important responsibility is to do a proper job of administering the laws and programs we have rather than dreaming up new ones to neglect?
— Stan Jones
Anchorage
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