If the Legislature is legally required to appropriate money to the Alaska “dividend fund” every year, Gov. Bill Walker is legally entitled to veto the appropriation, and those Alaskans mad about getting […]
PFD suit for dummies
Political shark bait
First nobody wanted to take on incumbent Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, and now one big-name player is firmly in the Senate race with another making noises about running a write-in campaign in […]
Let’s make a deal
Former Alaska Attorney General Craig Richards, now an aide-on-everything to Gov. Bill Walker, Friday made a pitch to the Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. to invest in the state’s economic future in the […]
Money, money, money….
Isn’t it about time Alaskans give Penny and the late Ron Zobel the recognition they deserve for altering history in a way no one could have guessed 30 years ago. Largely due […]
Predatory double standards
The federal government used tax payer dollars to kill tens of thousand of coyotes (which we now know are little more than skinny wolves) along with hundreds of bears and full-grown wolves […]
One state wholly divided
Yet again, Alaska’s long, difficult struggle with subsistence is in the news. This time the fight is over a gillnet in the Kenai River.
AK’s (un) Affordable Care Act
The sometimes not-so Affordable Care Act is focusing national attention on Alaska, the once oil-rich state facing no end of problems due to the global slump in oil prices. Writing in “The […]
The AK gas pipeline obsession
Awash in can-do enthusiasm fueled by construction of the 800-mile-long, crude-oil-hauling Trans-Alaska Pipeline System almost 40 years ago, oil producers on the 49th state’s North Slope made a good-faith, never-fulfilled offer to […]
Climate change gone wild
Seventy degree temperatures in Alaska in March. Sockeye salmon swarming to Alaska rivers thinking May is June. Glaciers fleeing the coast to search for mountain cold. Get out the beach umbrellas. The […]
Gasline financing questioned
UPDATE: This story was updated at 10:47 p.m., June 24, 2016 to include a biography of the staff at MustReadAlaska.com The possibility Alaska Gov. Bill Walker is preparing to declare Prudhoe Bay […]
