Alaskapocalypse Alaskapocalypse ’19: Banana Republicans in Oil Country Because Alaska is a banana republic where oil is the bananas — one big Conoco company town — there are some winners in this scenario. The billionaire CEOs of oil corporations will continue to enjoy annual tax breaks that happen to equal Alaska’s annual budget shortfall.
Alaskapocalypse Forget PFD vs State, it’s Big Oil vs Alaskans Alaskans should build a bipartisan movement to end fossil fuel subsidies and protect the PFD. While the greed expressed by Dunleavy and his defenders is truly reprehensible, let’s not vilify low and middle income families who rely on the PFD to make ends meet and rise out of poverty.
Climate Change I can’t stop thinking about the state of our state Alaska is on fire both physically and metaphorically and I’m afraid we aren’t sounding the alarms loudly enough