OPINION: Those braying for ‘full PFD now’ are offering ‘bread and circuses’
Those braying for “Full PFD Now” are offering you bread and circuses. There is some uncomfortable math that isn’t part of the slogan and that is “income
OPINION: The 1st domino was our PFD. More will fall if Alaska doesn’t develop its resources
We can't keep full government services, reject new development, refuse new taxes, and quietly raid the Permanent Fund Dividend to make up the difference. That's managing decline, one budget cycle at a
Dunleavy threatens to veto AK Senate’s latest gasline plan – calls 3rd special session
Despite his misgivings, Dunleavy said the bill is very close to being satisfactory, and he has decided to call a third consecutive special legislative session this summer to allow lawmakers to finish the bill. That will begin on July 27 in
Amid looming energy crisis, Republicans urge Democrat-run Alaska Senate to pass clean gasline bill
The House Republican plan replaces complex, unpredictable local property taxes with a stable alternative volumetric tax - exactly what investors claim they need to finance the massive 807-mile
OPINION: Democrat dogma and transactional politics are killing the Alaska gas pipeline
This isn't about whether LNG is good or bad policy. It's about whether Alaska's Democrats will abandon their stated principles when those principles get in the way of preferred outcomes. They answered that question in
Federal judge hears case to decide fate of Alaska’s Pebble Mine
Last week, two Alaska Native village corporations urged a federal judge to strike down a sweeping Environmental Protection Agency veto that they say has blocked the development of the long-stalled Pebble Mine project in Bristol
OPINION: Alaska doesn’t need to beg for permission to develop our own land
Start with the land we own outright. The federal government holds most of Alaska, and no amount of complaining changes that. But alongside the federal acreage, the state holds a vast estate of its own, and on that ground the decisions are
Dunleavy Applauds House Passage of Alaska LNG Bill
Gov. Mike Dunleavy praised the Alaska House of Representatives for passing House Bill 381. The 34-5 vote aims to establish a volumetric tax structure for the proposed Alaska liquefied natural gas pipeline
TODAY is the last chance to vote for Chugach Electric Board to balance the wokeness
TODAY is the last chance to vote for Chugach Electric Board to balance the
How Alaska’s gubernatorial candidates plan to defend state sovereignty against fed. overreach
What are Alaska's gubernatorial candidates prepared to do to defend Alaska's sovereignty and protect the state's
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