Ray Metcalfe Blog

February 17, 2008 10:26 PM - Posted by Ray Metcalfe

ConocoPhillips President Jim Bowles just can't seem to get Governor Palin's attention. He said she just doesn't understand the economics of it all. Maybe he should just try the same old fashioned economics his predecessors at ARCO used with former Governor Tony Knowles. Just write her a big check.

Do you remember any time in state history when it was legal to contribute more than $1000 to an elected official or a committee formed for his elect... Read More ...

February 12, 2008 9:13 AM - Posted by Ray Metcalfe

Corruption in Alaska involves more than just a few bad apples. It's as institutionalized as Jim Crow laws of the 1940's.

Sunday's Daily News described crooked land deals in Seward. What the Sealife story didn't say was that the city manager who refused to spend Senator Stevens' earmarks as directed was fired for his integr... Read More ...

Military Housing, Federal Appropriations, Political Influence, and Real Estate Transactions

January 22, 2008 7:16 AM 
Connecting the dots on how some persons in the private sector use real estate to pay politicians for favored treatment, and how some politicians return the favors and salt the privet sector with well healed businessmen who owe them a favor. Thus far this document has led or contributed to national stories on NBC, CNN; and on Anchorage television news KTUU, as well as articles in the Wall Street Journal, LA Times, and two articles in the Washington DC newspaper known as Roll Call.