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Willow’s revenues are temporary. All oilfields decline over time, so let’s make good use of this windfall.
Would you take a second mortgage on your home to play the stock market?
He became a kind of compass for the values of striving for the public good held by Alaska’s early leaders.
The growth of this program is impressive, but it just scratches the surface of the total need, as most in health care know.
It sounds depressing, but, in fact, we’re muddling along anyway.
Not continuing money for schools was disappointing, but a lot of good work was done. Sometimes years that are lean financially focus our attention.
Expending emotional energy over Willow is misplaced. It is better directed at other things that really matter, like speeding the needed transition to cleaner fuels.
If this project goes forward, there should be a pledge to local people by the governor and the Legislature. Some form of binding covenant may be needed.
One lesson learned from earlier failures in agriculture projects is that the state isn’t being prescriptive on how development will be done.
What I worry about is that the Permanent Fund will be pressed by politicians next year to make an overdraw.
It’s significant that workers in many of the new prospective mines are in regions near Alaska Native villages and employ people from those communities.
The final ugly debate in the House shouldn’t detract from the significance of this legislation.
Much has been said how polarized our political system has become, but these bills show that, in Alaska, bipartisanship is still possible.
We are more culturally diverse, but we’re now less tolerant as the shrinking status quo tries to cling to power.
The Permanent Fund is one of the things that Alaskans have done right. Have we now damaged it?