This op-ed was originally published in the Anchorage Daily News on March 14, 2022. by Dr. Steven and Mrs. Leslie Becker Years of conversation about high prices and spending on health care inRead More
Background on Federal COVID-19 Education Relief Funds
Alaska has received hundreds of millions of dollars in federal COVID-19 relief funds, most of which have gone straight to public school districts. Collectively to date, schools have nearly $401 million in COVID-19Read More
Video: Former Principal Supports Read by 9
Only one in four Alaska fourth grade students are reading on grade level. But there is a prescription for this problem. Debra Van Dyke was formerly principal at Fort Yukon School in theRead More
Alaska’s Tax Freedom Day
March 25 was Alaska’s Tax Freedom Day (TFD)—the day Alaskans and businesses in Alaska had worked enough days to pay all state and local taxes for the year. This is the earliest stateRead More
Testimony: Retirement Benefits
Appeals Court Backs Izembek Land Exchange
This article was originally published by The Heartland Institute on April 14, 2022. A three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overruled a lower court’s rejection of a land exchangeRead More