Dear Friends and Neighbors, The legislative per diem system should be fixed, in part because we can’t send mixed messages about the worst fiscal crisis in Alaska history. Our bi-partisan Alaska House Majority Coalition came together and took hard votes to fix this crippling, harmful deficit. Some more conservative legislators so far have blocked that […]
Senator Murkowski recently said she wants to hear from small business owners about the U.S. Senate’s health insurance repeal bill. Hopefully she will read this. My husband and I own an industrial supply company that has been operating in Alaska for 34 years. It is small. During that time we’ve had between 10 and 15 […]
I like a good fish tale. But when it involves fish, not when it involves politics. And not when it involves Senate leaders failing to tell you about a new $145 million subsidy they want to give our partners in the oil industry. The Senate started a media push last week, saying that they want […]
I do not believe there will be a government shutdown. Making that prediction true requires that 60 legislators act as statesmen and stateswomen, and that they base their votes on facts, not the fiction some politicians use for a good TV soundbite. Let me be clear about a few things, and why the Senate and […]