Alaska’s Upside-Down Economy

In only two hundred twenty five years, about three lifetimes by today’s standards, the United States has progressed from a group of colonies to the single leading economy in the world. Our capitalist economy has two main factors that other economic systems (i.e., communism, socialism and fascism) lack: private land ownership and the individual profit motive.  But there are some ways that [...]

KDN Cartoon: February 23, 2008

This week’s cartoon in the Ketchikan Daily News addresses the Alaskan voters initiatives (and one bill in the legislature) that address “clean water.” Or do they? This is where you can comment on this week’s Ketchikan Daily News cartoon. Click on the image to see the full cartoon.

Clean Water and Clean Mines

This year we have no less than three clean water initiatives that could end up on the ballot, and one bill along the same lines in the Legislature. A reading of each of these measures reveals that they are less about safe water than stopping construction of new mines by severely limiting what can be [...]