Republicans in the Alaska House tried Monday to change a resolution objecting to the renaming of Denali to Mount McKinley into a lengthy list of lavish praise for President Donald Trump, who issued the executive order making the change on his first day back in office a week ago,
Mike Dunleavy weren't immediately returned. Alaska's U.S. senators in 2017 vehemently opposed a prior suggestion by Trump that the name Denali be changed back to Mount McKinley. In 2015, then-President Barack Obama completed the change to the name Denali ...
Dunleavy offered no opinion on Trump's decision to rename Denali as Mount McKinley, saying he wanted to speak with the president before sharing his own view.
The Alaska House voted 28-10 to adopt a resolution signaling their opposition to changing the name of North America’s tallest peak.
Gov. Mike Dunleavy, in his second-to-last State of the State address on Tuesday night, took a victory lap with a selective recitation of actions and statistics from the past six years of his administration,
Gov. Mike Dunleavy joined Alaska’s News Source in the studio to discuss President Trump’s executive orders involving Alaska and what the future may hold for the state.
This past week, two resolutions were introduced in the Alaska Legislature to keep the name Denali. Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy, a Trump ally who praised another order by the president aimed at ...
Denali. We’ll continue the discussions with the Trump administration on that." Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy has said that he hopes to have a discussion with the president about the mountain ...
The mountain referred to as Denali by Alaska Natives for centuries was officially named Mount McKinley from 1917 until 2015, then changed to Denali in 2015 during President Barack Obama’s second term. Trump vowed during his first term in 2017 to change the name and followed through after he was reelected.
Mike Dunleavy speaks about new Trump administration ... He declined to take a public position on Trump stripping the Denali name from North America’s tallest peak, reverting to the Mount ...
1, 2015, in Denali National Park, Alaska. | Lance King/Getty Images Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy, a Trump ally who praised another order by the president aimed at spurring resource development in ...