Today is Day 121 of the Legislature’s regular session.We don’t know when the Legislature will finish its work, but it won’t be today. It may… Continue reading
I’m certain I’m not the first to raise this question about the North Carolina anti-transgender law. We’ve all heard that the state now requires those… Continue reading
We’re not mathematicians. That’s why we prefer to dabble in words and not numbers.Fortunately, it doesn’t require a declaration of the Alaska Office of Management… Continue reading
“If you won’t stand for something, you will fall for anything.” — quote attributed to numerous sourcesHistorically, when our nation has transitioned from one way… Continue reading
It’s time to solve our fiscal problem. The price of inaction is too high. As the Legislature nears the end of the constitutional 120-day session,… Continue reading
Do it right the first time, and it won’t be necessary to redo or undo it.That’s a lesson the Alaska Legislature is in the process… Continue reading
Prior to the 2012 election, Democrats had a theory: Republicans were in the grip of a “fever” that had led them to oppose and attempt… Continue reading
“The Tulsequah Chief mine missed a Canadian deadline to clean up its toxic metal pollution on Thursday.”That was the first line of a Juneau Empire… Continue reading
When I discovered during my service as governor that an Alaska State Trooper who was killed on the job, would not only leave a spouse… Continue reading
Donald Trump supporters have a point. So do Bernie Sanders’ legions. They are correct when they say that our society is rigged in favor of… Continue reading
It’s an exciting time of year here on the Kenai Peninsula. Hundreds of area students will receive their high school diplomas this week, and many… Continue reading
With long sunny days and warming temperatures, it’s time for a reminder to drivers that we’re sharing the road with two-wheeled vehicles.Gov. Bill Walker recently… Continue reading
Down through all the millennia that mankind has smoked tobacco, no one would have believed (or even imagined) that a battery-powered contraption with no tobacco… Continue reading
A Fairbanks City Council vote last week finally put to rest one of the most needless controversies in local government this year. Exercising veto power… Continue reading
He watches from the loftiest perch on the planet. Barack Obama has more than eight months left to his presidency, after seven grueling years of… Continue reading
On Thursday, the Alaska House voted 28-11 to approve Senate Bill 91.The Alaska Senate should concur with the amendments made by the House to this… Continue reading
Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has broken just about every political rule and precedent this election cycle, so what difference would it make… Continue reading
Competition is healthy.That one of only two companies offering individual health insurance policies to Alaskans is compelled by costs to exit that market is sickening.Moda… Continue reading
Every Trump critic had “Oh, hell” moments during the primary season.They were when Donald Trump demonstrated a keen, gut-level political instinct that even an exceptionally… Continue reading
And so it ends for the GOP — in Indiana, the heartland, and in May.Not in a brokered national convention. Not with much drama as… Continue reading
