John Coghill

This governor has repeatedly tried to push Alaska onto a road to fiscal ruin, and only the resolve of certain legislators has prevented it.

I believe in the right of parties to select their best nominee in a primary.

Before the Legislature does anything, if it does anything at all, about restructuring, it may be wise to see what the board’s report on potential consolidation says.

OPINION: It’s time for me to set the record straight on the well-considered criminal justice reforms in SB 91.

OPINION: The governor is trying to violate statute in order to foist an expensive entitlement program on Alaska. This unilateral decision exposes legal and financial weaknesses at a time the state is ill-equipped to afford them.

OPINION: De facto wilderness is the result of President Obama's ANWR recommendation, and violates more than one law. Alaska should fight back.

OPINION: Carrying a firearm in public is an exercise of two fundamental rights, and restricting the practice requires a “compelling state interest” and it must be done using the “least restrictive means” possible.

OPINION: Alaskans should be deeply troubled by federal overreach. The federal “anti-industry management style” in the Tongass National Forest has largely suffocated the private timber industry there.

OPINION: Alaska's incarceration costs are increasing and its prison population is rising. Other states have developed strategies that can limit the trend, but Alaska needs to invest in them, not just sit by.