OPINON: If Alaska doesn’t fix these 4 essentials we’re headed for a titanic crisis
The warning lights have been flashing for years, yet leadership keeps straightening the deck chairs on the Titanic rather than turning the wheel away from the iceberg. It is time to look squarely at the dangers ahead and take immediate, structural
Taking Back Alaska: We can shrink government by moving public workers into private sector
This is a strategic, fully federally funded framework for transitioning Alaska's public employees into private-sector roles - particularly in natural resource development, infrastructure, environmental compliance, and logistics - all while shrinking
Taking Back Alaska: Corporations, pensions & capital projects drain our treasury
Alaska maintains numerous quasi-independent state corporations, pension obligations, and speculative capital projects that drain the treasury without direct accountability or return.
Taking Back Alaska: State could cut $39M/year in non-essential travel, PR
Alaska’s state agencies continue to operate with pre-COVID levels of travel, outreach, vanity publications and other non-essential expenditures despite tightened fiscal
Taking Back Alaska: Shrinking govt. with modernization & AI integration
Through targeted administrative downsizing and the integration of AI systems, Alaska can both shrink government and enhance operational performance. Here’s
Taking Back Alaska Series: Medicaid & Health Bureaucracy Reform
Alaska’s health care system is broken - not because of a lack of funding, but because of systemic inefficiency, administrative bloat, and policy misalignment.
Taking Back Alaska: Start with targeted cuts to bloated state bureaucracy
Alaska’s core problem is structural. Each year, billions in federal grants arrive attached to administrative strings that grow state government beyond what its own economy can sustain. Entire departments now exist primarily to manage federal
Taking Back Alaska: From chronic bureaucratic dependency to earned liberty
In trying to reduce inequality, we have deepened the divide between state-managed existence and authentic opportunity. And in promising compassion, we have delivered
Taking Back Alaska Series: Reform without state funds even at $40/barrel oil
Alaska must develop a detailed, preemptive regulatory strategy to dismantle its own bureaucratic roadblocks - without increasing state spending—by using existing federal funding programs to unlock private-sector growth through natural resource
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