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. MikeRead More
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 futureRead More
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 foundRead More
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. Read More
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 andRead More
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: https://www.legis.state.ak.us/PDF/31/Bills/SJR003A.PDF Our testimony on SenateRead More