I read the whole report.  It definitely looks at the data set on boroughs from a different perspective.  The reporter failed to note that the report was funded by Northrim Bank and GCI.  Both of these institutions have a definite political agenda.  Northrim Bank funded the Goldsmith study on the effects of SB 21.  The Goldsmith study famously failed to even look at oil prices less than $50 a barrel proving that you get what you pay for.  $10 billion in oil pumped every year with almost nothing coming into the State general fund from oil.  Alaska has the best oil tax system oil money can buy.  Failure to act by the oil coalition in the Senate is going to hit all local governments hard.