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Alaska Should Learn from Kansas

By Dave Trabert As Alaska legislators ponder resolutions to the state’s budget challenges, there’s a lot to be learned from Kansas’ efforts to balance budgets under Governor Sam Brownback. Here’s the big lesson: […]

Justice Department Appeals Court Ruling Rejecting Road through Alaskan Wildlife Refuge

By Kelsey Hackem This article was originally published by The Heartland Institute on July 5, 2019. The U.S. Justice Department is appealing a decision by the Federal District Court of Alaska blocking the […]

University of Alaska Expenditures on Staff

In February, Governor Michael Dunleavy proposed an operating budget which reflected $134 million less in state funding for the University of Alaska. His budget was not used as the basis for the appropriations […]

Janus v. AFSCME: One Year Later

On June 27, 2018, the Supreme Court ruled on the Janus v. AFSCME case, overturning precedent and protecting the First Amendment rights of government workers across the country. Click the links below for more information […]

Judicial Obstruction is Hindering Offshore Exploration and Job Creation

The following op-ed by Bethany Marcum, Executive Director of APF, was published in the Washington Examiner. A federal district court judge recently blocked the Trump administration from approving oil leases off the coast […]

Spending Within Our Means

By Ann Brown The following op-ed was published in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and the Peninsula Clarion. While it is not unusual for political adversaries to call each other Chicken Little, Gov. Mike […]

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 […]