The three-year contract was approved after a brief executive session at the tail end of Wednesday s meeting. He is good to go, Town Administrator Jay Green said. He has a sergeants meeting scheduled for that week and is raring to go. Interim Police Chief Troy Bacon had declined to move into the permanent position leaving the Selectmen to undergo another search for a permanent chief. In early December, the board voted to appoint Kelley, who is chief of police at South Carolina s Spartanburg Community College. In other business, the selectmen approved a payment in lieu of taxes agreement for the construction of a 5.6-megawatt solar field on Duke s Gravel Pit on Grove Street.
U.S. District Judge Joshua Kindred granted a two-week temporary restraining order requiring the governor’s office to notify Jeff Landfield about news conferences.
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The Sunday Minefield – December 20, 2020
Christmas is just five days away! And New Years is just around the corner. Pretty soon it will be January and 2020 will be behind all of us. The 32nd Alaska Legislature is set to gavel in on January 19, 2021, just under a month away. The House or Senate have yet to organize majorities. If they are not organized by the start of the next session, 2021 could prove to be looser than ever in Juneau.
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Print article Alaska political blogger and former legislative candidate Jeff Landfield is suing Gov. Mike Dunleavy, along with the governor’s chief of staff and deputy communications director, for access to Dunleavy’s news conferences. In a complaint filed Thursday, Landfield asks Alaska Superior Court Judge Thomas Matthews to issue an injunction directing the governor and his communications team “to recognize that Landfield . must receive the same invitation at the same time as other members of the credentialed press to attend gubernatorial press briefings. Landfield, who is being represented pro bono by attorneys Matt Singer and Lee Baxter, also asks for attorneys’ fees and a declaration that the governor violated the free speech and due process clauses of the Alaska Constitution.
Matt Singer
Matt Singer is the editor and critic of the website ScreenCrush.com. For five years, he was the on-air host of IFC News on the Independent Film Channel, hosting coverage of film festivals and red carpets around the world. A member of the New York Film Critics Circle, he’s been a frequent contributor to the television shows CBS This Morning Saturday and Ebert Presents At the Movies, and his writing has also appeared in print and online at The Village Voice, The Dissolve, and Indiewire. His first book, Marvel’s Spider-Man: From Amazing to Spectacular, is on sale now.