Alaska’s government is embarrassing itself with expensive PR contracts, stonewalling Author: Paul Jenkins Published January 8 Share on Facebook Print article For those of us deeply leery of government, it largely being a nexus between nincompoopery and super-inflated egos, it is no surprise when it does something really dumb — even less of a surprise when it does it again and again. Take, for instance, Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration, which too often seems to have a tin ear, to go out of its way to exhibit a certain level of bureaucratic arrogance that, at times, seems almost palpable. Some say it is aggravated by the administration’s failures to communicate. Others swear it is incompetence.