To continue to attract new investment in its resources, Alaska must return to the policies that successfully developed the state's wealth in the first place.
Pressing business is being put aside this week as legislators attend an energy conference in Washington D.C., but that's not what should most concern us.
Global warming skeptics must recognize that real -- not predicted -- climate change is already turning the Arctic into a potential military flash point.
On Monday, Sens. Murkowski and Begich will lead a roundtable discussion on how to get Alaskans more involved in planning for increased shipping traffic resulting from a melting Arctic.
Some say that doctors charge too much, and the two health insurance companies that dominate Alaska's market have an interest in keeping doctors happy, so who ends up paying?
What may appear to be "a change of heart" is more likely the result of a change in circumstances. Am I ready to say "full steam ahead" on offshore development? Absolutely not.
While the conversation over where governmental involvement becomes intrusion is phenomenally important, hiding behind the right to privacy doesn't grant us the right to use our cars as weapons for the sole purpose of checking our voice mail.