Click here for a printable PDF. For Immediate Release June 10, 2021 Contact: Cassandra Day 530 340 2185 Cassandra@AlaskaPolicyForum.org ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Alaska Policy Forum announced the addition of a new Alaska Legislative […]
Graphs: Reality of 40% State Spending Cuts
During elections cycles and throughout special session budget planning, policymakers tout the 40% spending cuts that allegedly occurred since 2013. However, when the numbers are crunched, they tell an entirely different story — […]
Bring Police-Seized Assets into the Light
By Daryl James This op-ed was originally published by the Juneau Empire on December 16, 2020. Police call the press and circulate photos when they find big stashes of contraband. Officers in Juneau and Nome welcomed the […]
Seward Payroll Analysis: Fiscal Year 2018
Upon request, the City of Seward has graciously provided data to Alaska Policy Forum regarding compensation to their public employees during the fiscal year of 2018. This payroll analysis will examine the annual […]
Alaska’s Financial Transparency, Ranked
Each year, Truth in Accounting releases the Financial Transparency Score Report, which focuses on transparency in the budgets of state governments. The transparency score evaluates the comprehensive annual financial report (CAFR) of each […]
Request of Formal Investigation into “Better Elections” Ballot Initiative Signature Gathering Process
On April 15, 2020, Alaska Policy Forum sent the following letter to the Alaska Attorney General, requesting a formal investigation into the signature gathering process for ballot initiative 19AKBE, “An Act Replacing the […]
Financial Transparency Requirements for Union Intermediate Bodies
The following comments were submitted to Regulations.gov on February 18, 2020. The Department of Labor should subject union intermediate bodies which are composed of only public employees to the same financial transparency requirements […]
Compensation Costs for Executive Branch Exempt Employees
In light of the recent brouhaha regarding State of Alaska Executive Branch exempt employees, we are making available the following list with names and the associated costs to the state of compensating all […]
Online maps of 2018 Alaska public school test results now available
Parents and community members can now easily compare Alaska’s public schools via user-friendly maps that display student performance results. School districts across the state released the results of Performance Evaluation for Alaska’s Schools, or […]
Right-Sizing Alaska’s State Government Workforce Part II
Earlier this year, we commissioned and published a report by Key Policy Data (KPD) providing an analysis of how much Alaska pays for its public employees, comparing their compensation to their private sector […]
#OutsideMoney Influencing Alaska’s November Election
If you are a frequent reader of the work of the Alaska Policy Forum, you will know that we highly value government and campaign transparency. To that end, we are pleased to introduce a […]
How do we regulate the regulators?
The State of Alaska has 142 active boards and commissions that regulate professions such as doctors, trades such as hairdressers, and industries such as fishing. While most of the Alaska Policy Forum’s attention […]
2018 Alaska Legislature Grades
2018 Alaska Legislator Report Card now available!
IMPORTANT UPDATE to our Legislator Report Card as of August 17, 2018: The Alaska Policy Forum has learned that a technical issue has resulted in changes to our Legislator Report Card. An eagle-eyed […]
Impacts of Ballot Measure 1 on Alaska
The Senate State Affairs Committee held a meeting earlier this summer to learn the impacts to our state if Ballot Measure 1 passes in November. None of the presenters took a position on […]
Municipality of Anchorage Voter Turnout History 1975 – 2018
