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Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Stabilizing Alaska’s boom-bust-boom-bust revenue cycles

Brad Keithley

March 6, 2026

As we have discussed in previous columns, one of, if not the greatest, causes of Alaska’s fiscal problems is the use of projected year-ahead oil revenues in the...

Review: Heated Rivalry – Episode Three – “Hunter”

Jacob Hersh

March 5, 2026

I caught a Washington State University/University of Idaho hockey game the other day. As an alumnus of the former and an attendee of the latter, I wore a WSU sweatshirt and a bedraggled Idaho hat, so that whichever team…

The Sunday Minefield – March 1, 2026

Jeff Landfield

March 1, 2026

The 121-day session (constitutional limit) is already a third of the way through. The House passed the nearly $500 million supplemental budget, but failed to fund it. The finance committees got a sobering briefing on the Permanent Fund from…

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Why “Protect the Permanent Fund” is really “Protect the Spend”

Brad Keithley

February 27, 2026

Two slides, the first in a recent presentation before the Senate Finance Committee by the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation (APFC), and the...

An interview with Alan Lambert on his role in the film “Blue Moon”

Grant Keller

February 24, 2026

Alan Lambert is a Dublin based artist who has been working in film and television for over 30 years. He has painted murals, backdrops, portraits and various other artwork found within the worlds of projects like the Oscar winning...

The Republican gubernatorial gaslighters: Treg Taylor, Bernadette Wilson, and Adam Crum

Jeff Landfield

February 23, 2026

The first campaign finance reports for gubernatorial and legislative candidates came out last week. With 17 candidates in the race for governor, many political...

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