Alaska should extend much-deserved accommodations to military families
Military spouses are underemployed. But many skills they hold, such as in education and health care, are sorely needed here.
An easy way to increase vaccinations: Require them for PFD applicants
People who resist taking public health measures and protections are endangering other people.
Federal relief funds give Alaska an opportunity — if we act wisely
A lot of the catching up is justified, but let’s not lose the spending discipline we learned, painfully, from 2017 to 2020.
An expensive fumble on ANWR surveying
This year’s issues have cost people money in planning and getting equipment ready. It shouldn’t happen again.
AIDEA’s recent actions have been controversial. But historically, they’ve been profitable.
AIDEA has seen flops, but it has seen a lot of wins too.
Big PFDs aren’t a silver bullet for Alaska’s economic problems
Getting big checks is a big boost to morale, and we need that. But the downsides are easy to see.
Despite funding cuts, the University of Alaska is reinventing itself
What’s critical now is stability, and this is why the governor’s commitment to honor the three-year budget deal is important.
Ballot Measure 1 lost, but it won’t be the last chapter in Alaska’s oil tax tug-of-war
To hold public trust, tax systems must be transparent and simple. Ours is not.
The pandemic has been devastating. But state and municipal aid has kept it from being much worse.
A lot of these procedures had to be developed on the fly because this came together quickly, since COVID-19 hit in March. We’re fortunate to have made it all work.
Who are the real Permanent Fund defenders?
Our grandchildren, two or three decades out, will look back at 2020 as the year the dissipation of the Alaska Permanent Fund began.
The state bungled its rollout of CARES business aid. What’s next?
No other state has a limitation like this, as far as we can determine. This is a wound we inflicted on ourselves.
