Opinion

Opinion: Dunleavy’s budget: Malfeasance or misfeasance?

Opinion: Dunleavy’s budget: Malfeasance or misfeasance?

Governor fails to submit a revenue plan, refuses to contemplate one.

  • Apr 3, 2019
  • By ELSTUN W. LAUESEN
Opinion: Dunleavy’s budget: Malfeasance or misfeasance?
Opinion: There’s a right way to make budget decisions for Alaska. Then there’s a wrong way.

Opinion: There’s a right way to make budget decisions for Alaska. Then there’s a wrong way.

Legislature should exercise its budget powers in setting this year’s dividend.

  • Apr 3, 2019
  • By LARRY PERSILY
Opinion: There’s a right way to make budget decisions for Alaska. Then there’s a wrong way.
Opinion: Cut education funding, and watch school outcomes suffer

Opinion: Cut education funding, and watch school outcomes suffer

There is no way that this will improve the outcomes.

  • Apr 2, 2019
  • By Charlie Stephens
Opinion: Cut education funding, and watch school outcomes suffer
Opinion: The ‘Corrupt Bastard’s Club’ is alive and well

Opinion: The ‘Corrupt Bastard’s Club’ is alive and well

Their loyalties are to the oil companies, not you.

  • Apr 1, 2019
  • By RAY METCALFE
Opinion: The ‘Corrupt Bastard’s Club’ is alive and well
Opinion: Advocacy ‘science’ should take a back seat in Pebble Mine review

Opinion: Advocacy ‘science’ should take a back seat in Pebble Mine review

‘Experts for hire’ are trying to cloud your views of Pebble.

  • Apr 1, 2019
  • By MARK HAMILTON
Opinion: Advocacy ‘science’ should take a back seat in Pebble Mine review
Opinion: Make Southeast Alaska America’s 51st state

Opinion: Make Southeast Alaska America’s 51st state

SEXIT: The great state of chinook.

  • Apr 1, 2019
  • By GERSHON COHEN
Opinion: Make Southeast Alaska America’s 51st state
Opinion: Alaska’s illusion of election mandates

Opinion: Alaska’s illusion of election mandates

Gov. Dunleavy’s victory doesn’t reflect the true “public will” on the budget.

  • Mar 31, 2019
  • By RICH MONIAK
Opinion: Alaska’s illusion of election mandates
Opinion: Education reform is not about the money

Opinion: Education reform is not about the money

Spending more money is not improving education for our children.

  • Mar 31, 2019
  • By CAROL CARMAN
Opinion: Education reform is not about the money
Sen. Murkowski: Lands package will deliver real benefits for Alaskans, all Americans

Sen. Murkowski: Lands package will deliver real benefits for Alaskans, all Americans

Bipartisan lands bill is the result of good process and extensive negotiations.

  • Mar 29, 2019
  • By SEN. LISA MURKOWSKI
Sen. Murkowski: Lands package will deliver real benefits for Alaskans, all Americans
Opinion: Alaska needs a smaller, sustainable budget

Opinion: Alaska needs a smaller, sustainable budget

We can’t run away from the problem with taxes.

  • Mar 27, 2019
  • By LANCE ROBERTS
Opinion: Alaska needs a smaller, sustainable budget
Opinion: Alaska’s budget must be brought in line with our ability to pay for it

Opinion: Alaska’s budget must be brought in line with our ability to pay for it

We have allowed our budget to grow far beyond our means in this declining oil era.

  • Mar 27, 2019
  • By ALEXANDER HOKE
Opinion: Alaska’s budget must be brought in line with our ability to pay for it
Opinion: The governor’s false choices – a lose-lose proposition

Opinion: The governor’s false choices – a lose-lose proposition

One thing is certain: if we do nothing we will lose, and lose big.

  • Mar 26, 2019
  • By Joe Mehrkens
Opinion: The governor’s false choices – a lose-lose proposition
Opinion: Be very afraid of politicians who say not to worry

Opinion: Be very afraid of politicians who say not to worry

If you chill out as they want, your needs will be funded last.

  • Mar 25, 2019
  • By ANSELM STAACK
Opinion: Be very afraid of politicians who say not to worry
Opinion: Thirty years since the Exxon Valdez spill and our current ship of state

Opinion: Thirty years since the Exxon Valdez spill and our current ship of state

Governor’s budget is creating a hazardous fiscal reef.

  • Mar 25, 2019
  • By KATE TROLL
Opinion: Thirty years since the Exxon Valdez spill and our current ship of state
Opinion: Changing Alaska’s oil tax policy again would stall economic momentum

Opinion: Changing Alaska’s oil tax policy again would stall economic momentum

We must remain competitive, or we’ll slip even further behind.

  • Mar 24, 2019
  • By KARA MORIARTY
Opinion: Changing Alaska’s oil tax policy again would stall economic momentum
Opinion: New Zealand’s quick action on gun control shames the US Congress

Opinion: New Zealand’s quick action on gun control shames the US Congress

A justified response by politicians.

  • Mar 24, 2019
  • By RICH MONIAK
Opinion: New Zealand’s quick action on gun control shames the US Congress
Opinion: Don’t let Gov. Dunleavy’s budget rhetoric fool you

Opinion: Don’t let Gov. Dunleavy’s budget rhetoric fool you

It’s an utter travesty and heartless to the needs of our most vulnerable.

  • Mar 22, 2019
  • By PAUL BERAN
Opinion: Don’t let Gov. Dunleavy’s budget rhetoric fool you
Opinion: No harm, no foul with city, cruise lawsuit settlement

Opinion: No harm, no foul with city, cruise lawsuit settlement

The agreement makes clear all past sins, if any, are forgiven.

  • Mar 22, 2019
  • By WIN GRUENING
Opinion: No harm, no foul with city, cruise lawsuit settlement
Opinion: Our children must learn to read by age 9

Opinion: Our children must learn to read by age 9

The ability to read is the foundation of a child’s educational success.

  • Mar 22, 2019
  • By JODI TAYLOR
Opinion: Our children must learn to read by age 9
Opinion: Alaska can’t afford reckless rhetoric on Pebble Mine

Opinion: Alaska can’t afford reckless rhetoric on Pebble Mine

The state is not going to “rubber stamp” permits for Pebble.

  • Mar 21, 2019
  • By ABE WILLIAMS
Opinion: Alaska can’t afford reckless rhetoric on Pebble Mine