adn.com: Alaska (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
The Alaska Supreme Court on Thursday suspended the law license of Jim Clark, chief of staff to former Gov. Frank Murkowski.
adn.com: Alaska (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
The Alaska Supreme Court today suspended the law license of Jim Clark, chief of staff to former Gov. Frank Murkowski.
Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
... by juries and a fourth is awaiting trial. A lobbyist and the chief of staff to former Gov. Frank Murkowski have pleaded guilty. At the center of the investigation are the chief executive and a vice president of the Alaska-based oil-field services company Veco, now defunct. Both men have pleaded guilty and are cooperating in the investigation. Grand juries continue to hear evidence...
adn.com: Alaska (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
... by juries and a fourth is awaiting trial. A lobbyist and the chief of staff to former Gov. Frank Murkowski have pleaded guilty. At the center of the investigation are the chief executive and a vice president of the Alaska-based oil-field services company Veco, now defunct. Both men have pleaded guilty and are cooperating in the investigation. Grand juries continue to hear evidence...
adn.com: Alaska (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
... served as deputy commissioner beginning in 2003 and was appointed commissioner by then-Gov. Frank Murkowski in 2005. She was one of only two of Murkowski's cabinet appointees to keep their jobs under Palin.Jackson has come under fire from Republican legislators who cited concerns over spending requests and a lack of leadership within the department.Jackson said lawmakers' criticism...
adn.com: Alaska (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
FAIRBANKS -- After leaving office more than one year ago, former Gov. Frank Murkowski has traveled the world, built a cabin in Wrangell and traveled some more. In March, he led a delegation to watch democracy in action while Taiwan elected a president.
Royal Dutch Shell plc .com (Free subscription) | 04/20/2008
... agreement for a pipeline that included the state owning a 20 percent equity share with former Gov. Frank Murkowski in 2005. It was not approved by the state Legislature, however. Gov. Sarah Palin rebuffed a second initiative last November by ConocoPhillips. Wenzel said a critical turning point for BP and ConocoPhillips’ new initiative came after Palin’s rejection of ConocoPhillips’...
adn.com: Alaska (Free subscription) | 04/20/2008
The records show that one of the looming concerns of Abramoff and his fellow lobbyists at the time was a bill introduced by Young's fellow Alaskan, Sen. Frank Murkowski, to reform labor and immigration practices feeding the island's notorious Chinese-owned sweatshops. In 2000, Murkowski's bill passed the Senate unanimously, but Young stopped it cold in his committee, refusing to...
adn.com: Alaska (Free subscription) | 04/20/2008
... and his fellow lobbyists at the time was a bill introduced by Young's fellow Alaskan, Sen. Frank Murkowski, to reform labor and immigration practices feeding the island's notorious Chinese-owned sweatshops. In 2000, Murkowski's bill passed the Senate unanimously, but Young stopped it cold in his committee, refusing to hold even a hearing.Young has denied taking that action...
adn.com: Alaska (Free subscription) | 04/19/2008
... system.Ulmer, a Democrat, made an unsuccessful run for governor in 2002, losing to Republican Frank Murkowski. She was mayor of Juneau from 1983 to 1985, served in the state Legislature from 1986 to 1994, and was lieutenant governor under Democratic Gov. Tony Knowles from 1994 until 2002.The top UAA post pays $248,000 a year.
adn.com: Alaska (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
... system.Ulmer, a Democrat, made an unsuccessful run for governor in 2002, losing to Republican Frank Murkowski. She was mayor of Juneau from 1983 to 1985, served in the state Legislature from 1986 to 1994, and was lieutenant governor under Democratic Gov. Tony Knowles from 1994 until 2002.The top UAA post pays $248,000 a year.
adn.com: Alaska (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
... often facing opposition.The bill picked up momentum after the chief of staff to former Gov. Frank Murkowski pleaded guilty to federal fraud involving fundraising for his former boss.
Royal Dutch Shell plc .com (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
... Inducement Act. Palin started the process after legislators shot down a deal the former governor, Frank Murkowski, negotiated behind closed doors with the North Slope’s main oil and gas producers — BP, ConocoPhillips and Exxon Mobil Corp. Opponents said that deal was too favorable to the companies. TransCanada also says it has exclusive rights to move Alaskan gas through Canada as...
An Alaskan Abroad (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
... table and want in, but at what price? It was Exxon Mobil's demands that finally made former Gov. Frank Murkowski's deal with the producers unacceptable to legislators. There also remains the question of whether BP and ConocoPhillips can commercialize their natural gas holdings on the North Slope without the approval of their partner Exxon Mobil? But Exxon Mobil is just as much of...
PeakDems (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
... program."One member of Congress who actually worked on that model was Tom DeLay, who defended the :Frank Murkowski became furious at the abusive sweatshop conditions endured by workers, overwhelmingly immigrants, in the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands, of which Saipan is the capital. Because they were produced in a territory of the United States, garments traveled tariff-free...
