Tim Bradner

One lesson learned from earlier failures in agriculture projects is that the state isn’t being prescriptive on how development will be done.

If this project goes forward, there should be a pledge to local people by the governor and the Legislature. Some form of binding covenant may be needed.

The growth of this program is impressive, but it just scratches the surface of the total need, as most in health care know.

He became a kind of compass for the values of striving for the public good held by Alaska’s early leaders.

Would you take a second mortgage on your home to play the stock market?

Willow’s revenues are temporary. All oilfields decline over time, so let’s make good use of this windfall.

What’s important is that CO2 capture from a coal plant relies on proven technology. The basic process has been used for years in many industries.

Enstar has no alternative to natural gas. Renewable energy like wind and solar provide electricity, but gas provides heat.

Pikka and Willow won’t bring back the state oil revenue boom of the 1980s — these aren’t Prudhoe Bay-type fields — but the new oil will help.

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