Alaskans embracing the idea of Chinese investment in a massive, $44 billion project to transport natural gas from the North Slope to Cook Inlet and liquefy it for shipment to Asia […]
Chinese bargains
It’s the economy
Economists are forecasting Alaska could finally break out of its recession next year or may already have done so, but that doesn’t mean the economic future for the 49th state looks all that […]
Trump’s gasline
President Donald Trump may do more to make an Alaska gasline a reality than Gov. Bill Walker could ever have dreamed if a columnist for the website Seeking Alpha is to be […]
State of Stagnation
Commentary When did Alaska get so damn old? The median age in Anchorage in 1970 was 23.2. It is now 32.2, but sometimes feels like 82.2. As the rest of the […]
Grow Alaska how?
THIS STORY WAS UPDATED ON SEPT. 28, 2016 While Alaska Gov. Bill Walker was in Asia chasing a natural gas pipeline dream last week, Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott journeyed to the small […]
Alaska’s moral compass
Commentary What is Alaska becoming? The state that penned Alaska’s Clear and Equitable Share (ACES), a plan to use big taxes to maximize the people’s share of the wealth flowing out of […]
Totally flummoxed
News commentary Journalism has a lot in common with intelligence gathering. Journalists take bits and pieces of information of which they never have enough and try to construct from that a narrative […]
