Opinions
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Opinion: Small choices, local impact: Showing up for Alaska’s small businesses
What empty tables say about the fragile state of Alaska’s small businesses.
Opinion: Proposed ‘safer’ Seward Highway project is an awful idea
The proposed highway corridor would destroy terrain along Turnagain Arm and permanently change a key gateway to Chugach State Park.
Opinion: Rising costs, flat funding put Anchorage schools at a crossroads
District officials are outlining difficult choices ahead for schools and staff.
Opinion: It’s time to end Alaska’s fiscal experiment
As major projects loom, the state’s volatile budget system risks turning opportunity into deeper instability.
Opinion: Alaska chum salmon need a low bycatch cap and a safe passageway – and they need it now
The North Pacific Fisheries Management Council and Alaska Board of Fisheries need to act.
Opinion: A decade has passed, but the existential threat to Alaska’s future remains
The same conversations are still happening, but with higher costs and fewer options.
Opinion: A vision for health care transformation in Alaska
The heart of it: Improved access to care.
Alaska’s fiscal plan: A start in the right direction with questionable execution
The governor’s fiscal plan acknowledges Alaska’s revenue problem at last, but tying taxes, spending limits and a constitutional PFD together risks sinking them all.
Opinion: America is stronger when we choose the rule of law
When federal actions appear to disregard constitutional protections, it’s personal to my Anchorage neighbors and creates fear in places that should feel safe.
Opinion: Alaska’s energy future needs better data
The Alaska Energy Data Gateway fills long-standing information gaps for utilities, planners and local leaders
Letter: Anchorage needs a different approach to taxes and revenue
Opinion: Alaska would thrive under communism
Collective ownership fits Alaska’s unique history, economy and geography.
Opinion: Dessert first is no way to run Alaska’s budget
Gov. Dunleavy’s fiscal plan promises big Permanent Fund dividends while leaving the hard math for later.
Opinion: A new session and a shared responsibility for Alaska’s schools
For too long, discussions around public education have been framed as a fight — educators versus lawmakers, unions versus reform, schools versus the budget. Educators are not the enemy.
Opinion: The tyranny of quotas
Treating arrests as a quota-driven exercise has produced devastating results.
Opinion: Press releases don’t build pipelines. Accountability does.
If Alaska is being asked to reduce taxes for decades, invest public capital or accept lower long-term revenues, then Alaskans deserve to see the math.
Opinion: Alaska must proceed with caution on gas line legislation
History, hidden costs and financial risk demand far more transparency on the future of Alaska’s natural gas pipeline.
Letter: Freedom and responsibility
Opinion: Nuclear power is back, and Alaska is in the mix
Military microreactor projects at Fort Wainwright and Eielson Air Force Base signal that “new nuclear” is moving from theory to reality.
Opinion: The challenge of focusing our national outrage
Connection, participation and collective action can help us cope with the state of today’s shocking affairs.
Opinion: Trawlers get away with playing by their own rules
Council appointments and bycatch policy tilt the system toward industrial fleets at the expense of food security and culture.
Letter: Election proposals are win-win for Alaskans
Letter: The silence is deafening
Letter: The cost of inaction on Anchorage’s housing and fiscal crisis
Inaction is not neutral, and it is not always benign.
Opinion: Alaskans will become collateral damage if the Legislature intervenes in fisheries management
Bottom trawl legislation blurs critical distinctions and threatens small, Alaska-based fishing operations.
Opinion: Exploitation under the guise of Alaska development
The framers of our state constitution offer a sustainable way forward.
