Scott Goldsmith

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Dividend is the strongest protection for the Alaska Permanent Fund

OPINION: Alaskans' personal stake in the Permanent Fund is the most powerful guarantee of its permanence. Don't change that.

By Scott Goldsmith and John Havelock●

We'll have to work together to put Alaska's fiscal house in order

OPINION: Challenge in building a sustainable budget for Alaska demands a spirit of cooperation and a fundamental agreement that doing nothing is not an option.

By Randy Hoffbeck and Scott Goldsmith●

Alaskans, we better wise up before we burn through our savings

OPINION: Alaska will be over the fiscal cliff and way downstream if we try to sustain this unsustainable budget.

By Scott Goldsmith●

The firewood fueling Alaska's economy

If the flow of money into Alaska from the federal government and the petroleum sector disappeared overnight, two-thirds of the jobs for Alaskans would also disappear. That's because the federal government and the petroleum sector each support roughly a third of all the jobs for Alaskans. That's around 235,000 direct and indirect jobs, both public and private, across Alaska.

By Scott Goldsmith●