Lois Epstein

Let’s not build a gold-plated new Inlet View when a remodel on the current site using the $26 million the school already has would be sufficient.

This is a bad school rebuild design. The UDC should require the school to be rebuilt on the north side of the lot.

The state should only fund transportation projects that have been thoroughly vetted for success.

Not only is financial transparency needed for Hilcorp, the state needs to ensure that Hildebrand’s money is on the line.

The state already has spent more than $26 million on the road.

Large numbers of Alaskans oppose drilling in the refuge and turned out to say so in Fairbanks and Anchorage.

Two current projects would cost billions of state — not federal — dollars to construct, with little revenue in return even if tolls were levied.

A "small footprint'' would sprawl via roads and pipelines, cutting off wildlife and hunters and despoiling a wilderness treasure.

TAPS won't shut down without ANWR; so we can preserve one of the last great tracts of wildnerness and still keep Alaska oil flowing.

Company's recent troubles, record of violations should give Alaskans pause about its plans for the far north.

Lawmakers should take a hard, cold look at this survivor of the Alaska megaproject cuts.

As the Obama administration prepares to finalize its five-year program for offshore oil and gas leasing for 2017-2022, some proponents of offshore drilling in the Arctic have long argued — wrongly — that we must dramatically increase the amount of oil flowing through the nearly 40-year-old pipeline built to transport crude 800 miles from the … Continue reading Alaska pipeline can operate without offshore Arctic oil

OPINION: The same oil company that showed poor judgment and made many major technical mistakes in 2012 is asking us to trust it to protect the near-pristine, fragile and remote Arctic Ocean in 2015.

OPINION: Neither Shell nor federal regulators are ready for oil and gas exploratory drilling in Alaska's Arctic waters.

OPINION: Alaska better think twice about mega road projects, because Uncle Sam won't be picking up the tab.