Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: A not-too-far-fetched “thought experiment”
March 7, 2025
“Thought experiments are defined as the mental process of using hypotheticals to logically reason out a solution to a difficult question. As the name...
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Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Alaska has a revenue design problem
Brad Keithley February 28, 2025
In a recent op-ed that is making its way through the state’s newspapers and other media outlets, former Revenue Commissioner Bruce Tangeman rhetorically asks,...
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: How the Legislature should respond to the Hilcorp LNG proposal
Brad Keithley February 21, 2025
Earlier this month, Marathon Petroleum Corporation (Marathon), the owner of the Kenai oil refinery and various related assets, announced the proposed sale...
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Revenues
Brad Keithley February 14, 2025
Those who follow these columns know that we have been discussing for nearly all of the time we have been writing them the fiscal…
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: A couple of updates
Brad Keithley February 7, 2025
This week, we are updating the charts in our two previous columns – last week’s on the budget (“This is brutal”)…
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: This is brutal
Brad Keithley January 31, 2025
Over the past few years, one of the documents we have come to rely on most in assessing Alaska’s fiscal situation is the Legislative…
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: The real Permanent Fund reform that’s needed
Brad Keithley January 24, 2025
Earlier this month, three groups - Alaska Common Ground, the Institute of the North, and Commonwealth North - co-hosted a forum entitled “Protecting the...
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: WHICH working-age Alaska families are outmigrating?
Brad Keithley January 17, 2025
Earlier this month, the state’s Department of Labor and Workforce Development (DOL) issued a press release summarizing its most recent population...
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Permanent Fund “Performance”
Brad Keithley January 10, 2025
Last June, during the height of the issues surrounding former Permanent Fund Corporation (PFC) Trustee Ellie Rubenstein, we wrote a column…
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Here’s a significant part of the revenue problem
Brad Keithley January 4, 2025
In our last column, we examined Governor Mike Dunleavy’s (R – Alaska) proposed Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 10-year plan and expressed…