Editorials

Tell your legislators that you expect them to come to the table in January 2024 ready to do the job you elected them to accomplish.

It’s the state’s responsibility to strike a fair balance by requiring Kinross to bear a portion of the costs it’s going to incur; the company shouldn’t get a free ride.

Spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to further embarrass the mayor ahead of the April election is not a wise use of public funds — especially when he’s proven more than willing to do it himself for free.

We can’t successfully tackle problems until we understand their scope.

The mayor needs to make a full accounting of what happened, who knew about it and how we can be confident it won’t happen again.

Anchorage has a winter plan for dealing with homelessness — or does it?

If we wish to make this place inviting and accommodating to as many people as possible, we need to be responsive to changing trends and needs of the people who live here.

A legitimate treatment solution may be expensive, but it can’t be more expensive than the failing patchwork of partial remedies we rely on now.

Anchorage devised its current zones based on its needs as it grew. Now that the municipality has matured, our needs have changed.

Taylor keeps signing on to causes that would expand government’s ability to monitor Alaskans’ behavior.

Most Alaskans, regardless of their view on individual education issues, want a school system that works and that will provide their children with the opportunities they need to build a better life.

The administration must be forthcoming if it has any hope of regaining the public’s trust.

The Assembly and Mayor Bronson’s administration should recognize the urgency of Anchorage’s current position and work quickly.

Yes, things have moved quickly the past few years, but that’s all the more reason for our leaders to perform the kind of diligence taxpayers expect.

Lawmakers have shown real promise this year in their ability to compromise in the better interest of Alaska. Let’s keep that ball rolling.

Instead of an incentive for Alaskans to keep an eye on government, it has become the only government spending item many Alaskans care about.

There is one proposed tax change that makes sense, from a fairness perspective.

Despite partisan clamoring to ditch ranked choice voting, legislators have wisely chosen to steer clear of that morass and focus on election tweaks that are actually helpful.

The plan to open the Golden Lion to disabled homeless residents is a hopeful sign, however slight, that further progress in addressing shelter needs is possible.

Imposing a sales tax would be another drag on a state economy that’s already “at or near the bottom” in key economic indicators, and which has had the weakest post-pandemic economic recovery of any U.S. state.

Anchorage voters’ message was a resounding repudiation of Mayor Dave Bronson’s administration.

It’s easy to fall into the trap of believing that one’s personal beliefs about what school should be are the only way the system should work.