Dave Harbour

Here’s a question for each of us: Should we enact the higher taxing and more confusing initiative at a time that endangers our slowly improving economy?

Alaska Air is not longer going to hand out prayer cards. The airline's reasoning lacks logic and common sense and could become a classic text book case of a marketing and public relations disaster, a "PR boomerang."

Alaska's Constitution does require developing collectively owned resources for the maximum benefit of state residents, but what about future generations?

Alaska's state officials treat their federal landlords with courtesy. But pull back the curtain and sovereignty issues keep relations tense between the Parnell and Obama administrations -- for good reason.

Sen. Mark Begich proposes adding a new layer of regulatory complexity to the already demanding federal regulatory system in the Alaska Arctic, a move that could make it even more difficult to tap the region's vast oil and gas resources.

Alaska's natural resources are natural treasures, from environmental and economic perspectives. I hope our new U.S. senator successfully balances Alaska's resource potential with appropriate environmental, national security and consumer considerations.