Tim Bradner

If we’re serious about defense in the Arctic, we should take advantage of our strategic location.

Pikka and Willow won’t bring back the state oil revenue boom of the 1980s — these aren’t Prudhoe Bay-type fields — but the new oil will help.

Enstar has no alternative to natural gas. Renewable energy like wind and solar provide electricity, but gas provides heat.

What’s important is that CO2 capture from a coal plant relies on proven technology. The basic process has been used for years in many industries.

Willow’s revenues are temporary. All oilfields decline over time, so let’s make good use of this windfall.

Would you take a second mortgage on your home to play the stock market?

He became a kind of compass for the values of striving for the public good held by Alaska’s early leaders.

The growth of this program is impressive, but it just scratches the surface of the total need, as most in health care know.

It sounds depressing, but, in fact, we’re muddling along anyway.

Not continuing money for schools was disappointing, but a lot of good work was done. Sometimes years that are lean financially focus our attention.

Expending emotional energy over Willow is misplaced. It is better directed at other things that really matter, like speeding the needed transition to cleaner fuels.

If this project goes forward, there should be a pledge to local people by the governor and the Legislature. Some form of binding covenant may be needed.

One lesson learned from earlier failures in agriculture projects is that the state isn’t being prescriptive on how development will be done.

What I worry about is that the Permanent Fund will be pressed by politicians next year to make an overdraw.