Six of the Anchorage’s 12 Assembly seats are up this year. Only two incumbents, Assembly members Daniel Volland and Felix Kameron Perez-Verdia, are seeking…… Read More
Six of the Anchorage’s 12 Assembly seats are up this year. Only two incumbents, Assembly members Daniel Volland and Felix Kameron Perez-Verdia, are seeking…… Read More
Last week’s column focused on conducting a “thought experiment” on the Permanent Fund (Fund). It examined what would have happened if the balance of the Fund had been invested in an exchange-traded fund (ETF) replicating the Standard and Poor’s…… Read More
After weeks of delay in the House, the majority’s education bill started moving again this week. It was first altered in the rules committee and then subject to some drama on the House floor on Thursday morning. House Finance subcommittees … Read More
“Thought experiments are defined as the mental process of using hypotheticals to logically reason out a solution to a difficult question. As the name suggests, thought experiments often try to simulate the experimental process through imagination alone.”… Read More
It’s pretty wild that it’s already March. The lack of snow makes it feel like early May. The clocks go ahead next Sunday, meaning we will all lose an hour of sleep. I apologize for the late column. I flew … Read More
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, “Does Alaska have a revenue problem or a spending problem? It takes a while for him to get…… Read More
Former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney will be speaking in Anchorage in May. She was invited to speak by the University of Alaska College of Arts and Sciences. When asked what he speaking fee was, Austin Osborne, Chief Marketing Officer for UAA…… Read More
Records obtained by the Landmine show Natural Resources Commissioner John Boyle and his special…… Read More
We are more than one month into the legislative session and things finally went of the rails this week! At least they did in the House. After a big fight on the House floor, a bill to massively increase per … Read More