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My Turn: What kind of Alaska do we want to live in, and how will we pay for it?
Published 3:55pm Thursday, March 9, 2017Alaskans are asking important questions about budgets, expenditures, investments, services, taxes and credits. They all boil down to two questions — what kind of Alaska ... Read more
Alaska Chamber President: Restructure the Permanent Fund to protect the dividend
Published 5:00am Thursday, March 2, 2017Having spent time in Juneau at the beginning of the legislative session for the Alaska Chamber’s annual legislative fly-in, I’m pleased to see that my ... Read more
My Turn: What kind of Alaska do you want to live in?
Published 9:00pm Sunday, February 19, 2017This question gets to the heart of the matter. What is it we really want Alaska to look like? What kind of Alaska do we ... Read more
House votes to lift Obama limits on Alaska hunting, trapping
Published 10:04pm Thursday, February 16, 2017WASHINGTON — The House has approved a bill to lift some Obama administration restrictions on hunting and trapping of bears, wolves and other predators on ... Read more
My Turn: Alaska’s criminal justice reform efforts should be celebrated
Published 2:01am Sunday, February 5, 2017Alaska lawmakers should celebrate their landmark successful criminal justice overhaul last year. In July 2016, Gov. Bill Walker signed Senate Bill 91 into law, a ... Read more
Alaska editorial: Senate survey shows residents want a full-fledged solution to fiscal gap
Published 5:33pm Thursday, February 2, 2017This editorial first appeared in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner: Lawmakers are wise to listen to their constituents, and at the beginning of this year’s legislative ... Read more
Alaska Editorial: Senate survey shows residents want a full-fledged solution to fiscal gap
Published 6:18pm Tuesday, January 31, 2017Lawmakers are wise to listen to their constituents, and at the beginning of this year’s legislative session, the Alaska Senate majority caucus made a meaningful ... Read more
Alaska Natives to protect land for California carbon program
Published 5:41pm Friday, January 27, 2017ANCHORAGE — An undeveloped Alaska coal field, California’s offsets for carbon pollution and thousands of acres of forest are the unlikely players in a complex ... Read more
My Turn: Alaska’s national parks need infrastructure support
Published 6:22pm Thursday, January 19, 2017In 2016, the National Park Service celebrated its centennial anniversary. 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of Denali National Park, one of the many crown jewels ... Read more
‘Piano Tide’ offers a story of environmental ethics in Southeast Alaska
Published 9:01am Wednesday, January 18, 2017A woman with a piano, a dog, and not much else ferries into a tiny Southeast Alaskan village. The townspeople — a grumpy, shouting philosopher ... Read more
Gov. Walker takes on mighty foe: Alaska’s oil dependency
Published 9:01am Tuesday, January 10, 2017JUNEAU — Alaska’s first independent governor enters the second half of his term with unfinished business: resolving the state’s multibillion-dollar budget deficit. It’s not quite ... Read more
Alaska Editorial: No state services without costs
Published 9:00am Thursday, January 5, 2017The following editorial first appeared in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner: And so it begins, as expected: people complaining about some state-maintained roadways not being cleared ... Read more
Alaska Journal of Commerce Year in Review: Budget fallout tops all in 2016
Published 9:01am Sunday, January 1, 2017ANCHORAGE — The 2016 legislative session(s) all but dispelled the cliché that if everyone is unhappy with the results of a negotiation the best solution ... Read more
Why the charter halibut RQE is good for Alaska
Published 3:34am Tuesday, December 6, 2016Alaska history is full of fishing stories, from fireside salmon consumption 11,000 years ago to the largest commercial landings in 2016. How, where and what ... Read more
Alaska to decide US Senate, House races
Published 9:01am Tuesday, November 8, 2016ANCHORAGE — Alaska voters will decide a rematch of a contentious U.S. Senate race, a fight for Alaska’s lone U.S. House seat and the future ... Read more
Alaska Editorial: Commissioner justified in defense of predator management
Published 8:01am Tuesday, November 1, 2016The following editorial was written by the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner: In an ongoing battle about game management in Alaska, Department of Fish and Game Commissioner ... Read more
Alaskans bemoan sum of PFD
Published 9:30pm Monday, October 3, 2016ANCHORAGE — Yes, you could call it free money. But that doesn’t mean all Alaskans are happy about the $1,022 dividend checks nearly every resident ... Read more
University of Alaska tuition could go up 10 percent next fall
Published 1:49am Friday, September 16, 2016Student tuition at University of Alaska may increase by 10 percent next year under an operating budget outlined by President Jim Johnsen at Thursday’s Board ... Read more
My Turn: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service steps out of bounds on Alaska refuges
Published 8:00am Monday, September 5, 2016Few places in the world maintain a stronger connection to hunting, gathering and eating well from the land than Alaska. Here, the harvest of wild ... Read more
My Turn: Feds disingenuous about predator management in Alaska
Published 8:04am Wednesday, August 31, 2016Many in the outdoor community are probably aware that recently approved regulations by the National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) ... Read more