A recent opinion piece in the Ketchikan Daily News by Carl Marrs deserves a response. That piece, titled “Alaska s surplus: Save it or spend it", argues that while this year’s
One pushback we often hear when discussing cuts to the Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) - and that we heard again after last week’s column - are variations on: “yes, we understand that PFD cuts have a disproportionate effect on the
For a long time, significant issues about our Permanent Fund have been bungled and avoided. How long? Too long, since 2016, when then Governor Walker decided to ignore the long-standing formula to pay the dividend embedded in Alaska law. The failure to pay the dividend according to statute has created political chaos. Every legislative session since Walker vetoed the dividend