The following op-ed by Ann Brown, Vice President of the Alaska Policy Forum, was published in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and the Peninsula Clarion. While it is not unusual for political adversaries to […]
Spending Within Our Means
Mat-Su Borough Employee Salaries and Benefits for 2017
Transparency is a foremost goal of the Alaska Policy Forum. As citizens, we hold a critical interest in how our tax dollars are used and transparency only serves to better inform our future […]
Proposed Anchorage Climate Action Plan Would Be Costly Mistake
A recent review of the proposed Anchorage Climate Action Plan by The Heartland Institute, one of the world’s leading free-market think tanks, found the plan would be a costly mistake. The report found […]
A Shameful Narrative
An offensive narrative has been circulating that Alaska Native children are to blame for our state’s low reading test scores. That narrative is not only extremely divisive and offensive – it is untrue. […]
Unsustainable Spending: The State of Alaska’s Budget and Economy
Alaska Policy Forum is proud to have partnered with economic experts at The Buckeye Institute and its Economic Research Center to release our latest policy paper: a study of Alaska’s budget, economy and […]
Membership of Judicial Council
Senate Joint Resolution 3, “Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Alaska relating to the membership of the judicial council”. Link to the full bill: http://www.legis.state.ak.us/PDF/31/Bills/SJR003A.PDF Our testimony on Senate […]
Ballot Initiative Severability
Senate Bill 80 is “An Act relating to proposing and enacting laws by initiative.” Here is a link to the bill: http://www.legis.state.ak.us/PDF/31/Bills/SB0080A.PDF Our testimony on Senate Bill 80 Our state is indeed fortunate […]
Direct Health Care
House Bill 92, “An Act exempting direct health care agreements from regulation as insurance; establishing a direct care payment program for medical assistance recipients; and providing for an effective date.” Link to the […]
Our Children Must Read by 9
The following op-ed was written by Alaska Policy Forum Board Member Jodi Taylor and has been published in multiple newspapers across the state including the Anchorage Daily News, The Juneau Empire, and the […]
Surprise! Potential Solutions for High Health Care Costs
Alaska has the highest health care costs (per capita) in the nation. There are many reasons for this, and one that has been receiving great attention in recent years is what is commonly […]
The Hard Truth About Medicaid Expansion
The following op-ed by our Executive Director, Bethany Marcum, was published in the Anchorage Daily News, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Delta Discovery, the Peninsula Clarion, and the Ketchikan Daily News in February 2019. […]
Perspective: Impact of FY2018 Supplemental Budget Education Funding Reduction
When Governor Dunleavy announced he would be submitting a supplemental budget with a $20 million reduction to education funding for fiscal year 2018, there was a fair amount of angst expressed by the […]
APF Donors Meet Kimberley Strassel at Insiders’ Briefing
Key supporters of the Alaska Policy Forum had the pleasure of spending a private evening with renown writer Kimberley Strassel recently. Avid political watchers will know Strassel from the Wall Street Journal’s “Potomac […]
Third-Grade Literacy: Alaska’s students must Read by 9
The Problem Statistics for literacy among Alaska’s children are dismal. Alaska’s K-12 education system has arguably the worst student outcomes in the nation in the fundamental task of teaching children to read by […]
Is Alaska’s Government Workforce Cost Efficient?
The following op-ed by Bob Griffin, a Board Member of the Alaska Policy Forum, was originally published in the Anchorage Daily News on December 6, 2018. The idea of slow-moving government employees working […]
Preserving Economic Opportunity for Medicaid Recipients
Care for the needy and assistance to those down on their luck are hallmarks of Americans across the country. Our concern for the vulnerable among us is evident in statistics which regularly place […]