In interviews, Gov. Dunleavy has said his second term will build off his first. He lists marketing natural gas, planning for Arctic shipping lanes and improving public safety among his priorities.
that slashed $444 million from the state’s operating budget: a 41% cut to the University of Alaska, a 75% reduction to the marine highway system, plus cuts to Medicaid, the village public safety officer program and elsewhere.
Many Alaskans saw the proposed cuts as a draconian attack on state services and a campaign to recall Dunleavy launched the summer of 2019. But at the same time, Lottsfeldt said, Dunleavy disregarded conservative calls to fire Chief Medical Officer Anne Zink. “I’m being very generous, but that’s how I choose to think, is that being governor has allowed him to be more thoughtful and realize that the solution is more in the center, it isn’t far left or far right,” Lottsfeldt said.
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