Teamwork

THE SOURCE: Anchorage Daily Planet Gov. Mike Dunleavy and his team deserve kudos for rapidly assembling a new, bipartisan team to wrestle with the potential upheaval the COVID-19 virus could wreak on Alaska’s economy. Former Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Begich, defeated...

Mark Begich is opening a grocery store in Utqiagvik.

THE SOURCE: Alaska Public Media When Mark Begich was a U.S. senator, he took visiting dignitaries on trips to rural Alaska. Every time, he said, he’d drag them into the village store, to show just how much residents had to pay for laundry detergent or a gallon of...

Do not let the PFD divide us

THE SOURCE: Frontiersman Here we go again, another special session causing uncertainty and angst for all Alaskans all because our leaders have yet to provide a long-term solution for the Permanent Fund Dividend and our budget issues. As an Alaskan, a businessman, and...