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How Alaska Actually Works
Here are published essays and more coming. No fundraising pitch dressed up as a newsletter, just the plain explanation of how Alaska's economy stacks up (and fails) compared to others, our potential, and policies that affect us all.
Francethe size of Texas
Texas is about to pass France
One of them is a state. The other is a country with a thousand years of head start. What Texas did is not a secret, and Alaska has the same ingredients.
Cost of living · 7 min read
67¢of each subsidy dollarYour groceries cross an ocean. So do theirs.
There is an island where every carton of milk arrives by sea, and the country it belongs to decided that was a structural problem rather than bad luck. We decided ours was weather.
Cost of living · 6 min read
35TCF of stranded gasSilicon Tundra
The AI boom is an energy boom wearing a software costume. Alaska has the power, the cold, and the shortest line to Asia. We should be building it here.
The next economy · 7 min read
34,000working-age AlaskansWhy your kids can't afford to stay
Alaska’s kids didn’t stop loving Alaska. Do the math they’re doing at the kitchen table and you’ll see what actually changed.
Cost of living · 6 min read
0feet of pipeYou can't tax a pipeline that never gets built
Six governors. Five frameworks. Fifty years. Zero feet of pipe. Every one of those attempts died of the same thing, and it wasn’t geology.
The gas line · 6 min read
25¢per kilowatt hourThe price of power is the price of everything
Affordable energy isn’t one item on Alaska’s list. It’s the math underneath the whole list: the grocery bill, the rent, the paycheck, and whether the kids stay.
Energy · 6 min read
$17.50and no one soldNobody took the $17.50
Enstar offered $17.50 per thousand cubic feet to anyone who would drill and produce new gas. Nobody took it. That's not an expensive market. It's an empty one.
Energy · 6 min read
4Bcf in storageAlaska wrote down who loses heat first
There is a document in Southcentral that lists the order in which we stop delivering gas. It is a good list, carefully made. The problem is that it exists.
Energy · 3 min read
0people counting dieselWe count every fish. Nobody counts the diesel.
Alaska runs one of the most precise fisheries management systems on earth. We bring none of that precision to the thing that decides whether a boat can afford to leave the harbor.
Fisheries · 6 min read
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