Gregg Erickson
Japan's view of kamikaze pilots has lesson for rest of us
A couple of years ago I paid an emotional and disturbing visit to an old air base near the southern tip of Japan. Kamikaze pilots received training here and many were launched from here for their one-way attacks on American ships.
Gregg Erickson
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GREGG ERICKSON
Heart of health care issue is young folks
I had a quadruple bypass at Anchorage's Providence Hospital in October.
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GREGG ERICKSON
Warning: PFD could be hazardous to health
Did you know that the arrival of the Alaska Permanent Fund dividend increases the death rate? That's right, the PFD could be implicated in your premature death later this month.
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GREGG ERICKSON
Today's economic situation is ironic paradox
Four and a half years ago I wrote in this space about the coming economic crisis. I said it could be worse than the Great Depression of the 1930s.
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GREGG ERICKSON
Parnell gets things done without flash and dash
Gov. Sean Parnell faces tough issues. On the energy front, a gas shortage threatens the Railbelt. Competing plans for hydropower and a bullet gas line contend for massive investment. Court fights over development of the Point Thomson oil and gas field will also demand decisions.
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GREGG ERICKSON
Stepping down gives Palin shot at 2012
Gov. Sarah Palin leaves office today. The reaction to her resignation among Alaskans has been strangely contradictory: People criticize her for being a quitter, yet in the next breath say, "good riddance."
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GREGG ERICKSON
Candidate Palin has character problem
Could my governor, the charismatic Sarah Palin, be the leader Republicans are desperately looking for to lead their party out of the wilderness in 2010?
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GREGG ERICKSON
Elton loves his position on Obama's team
The main job of Kim Elton, the top Alaskan on the Obama team at the Department of the Interior, is to make sure his boss, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, knows the political lay of the land in the last frontier. He is also the department's Alaska ambassador. A bulletproof vest might be helpful for...
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GREGG ERICKSON
Class marks double-50th anniversaries
Fifty years ago 381 classmates and I collected our Anchorage High School diplomas on the stage of what is still called the "Anchorage High Auditorium" even though the school was long ago renamed West High.
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GREGG ERICKSON
Lawmakers' Permanent Fund raid will gut future payouts
When Alaskans went to the polls in 1976 they were in an optimistic mood. The state had blown through $900 million in oil bonuses received seven years earlier, and no oil had yet been produced from the North Slope's fabulous oil fields, but the pipeline to Valdez was under construction and jobs were...
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GREGG ERICKSON
Economy requires big dose of spending
Most reporters covering the Capitol in Juneau avoid budget subcommittees. Listening to top bureaucrats explain why they need more money is not the standard material for news stories that turn editorial heads and advance a reporter's career.
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