I hope the Alaska Historical Commission sticks with Bulchitna Lake and rejects a proposal to start calling it Hneh'itnu Bena Lake. The existing name is important for historical reasons and it has literary merit.
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This grandstanding move is not sustainable. It is a 2018 election ploy, pure and simple, by politicians with conflicting goals.
Read MoreToday is a good day to ask Curtis Thayer if the road to a balanced budget is paved with cuts to spending for repairing bridges on the Glenn Highway. There is a connection between state spending and services.
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Rebecca Logan was the president and CEO of a small organization that did not comply with a court order to direct a portion of her paycheck to pay a debt. That could not have happened without the knowledge of the president and CEO.
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Alaska candidates running for state office have to admit that every financial choice means inflicting pain on the public now or taking more from savings, postponing the pain until young Alaskans are old enough to realize what we've done to them.
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There is an easy way to bypass the ineffective Alaska law limiting campaign contributions to $500. The shadow campaign backing Republican Mike Dunleavy for governor shows how it's done.
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North Pole Rep. Tammie Wilson, who once said she doesn't believe in inflation, is wasting valuable state time again with dozens of budget amendments based on a misreading of budget statistics.
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The record shows that Rep. Mike Kelly was wrong and that offering a weaker retirement plan did create personnel problems in Alaska. The latest confirmation comes from an unusual source—Mike's brother Pete.
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In the latest example of Youngspeak, Rep. Don Young said that millions died in Russia because they didn't have guns and "Jews were put into the oven" because they didn't have guns. He was not quoted out of context.
Read MoreThe first financial reports on the governor's race are out. Gov. Bill Walker and Lt. Gov. Bryon Mallott lead the field with about $440,000 on hand for their re-election campaigns, while Scott Hawkins has dumped $200,000 of his own money into his campaign and Mike Dunleavy's major financial backing has gone to an independent group that he is not supposed to have any connection with.
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We should drop the pretense that there are no tradeoffs and that the Permanent Fund Dividend cut has nothing to do with oil taxes or an income tax.
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