I'm sort of disillusioned with Alaska. I've known for over 40 years Alaska is always behind when it comes to innovative thinking. I first noticed it in Fairbanks where people were cruising around in bell-bottom jeans years after they faded from view in the rest of the world. How quaint....
Now we seem stuck in an rut when it comes to oil, oil revenue and oil influence on our government. Our last governor's only "achievement" in office was the massive oil taxation break and it took him three tries and actual oil company employees in elected office to pull it off. It didn't pass the stink test but we live with it today.
The truth is we need to diversify our economy so that no one industry can dominate our affairs. Duh.... We are the richest state in the nation based on money in our "rainy day account" despite what people are telling you about our financial status. We just need to invest in ourselves rather than in massive oil company stock portfolios. Will any candidates work on that?