Alaska Dispatch:

Your editors need to do better than this reporting:  "...which stems from a crash in the price of oil combined with long-term production declines."

This reporter tries hard, but you editors need to step up.  Nathaniel has only been in Alaska a short time.  He simply does not know our history, or recall the decades where the price of oil was never above $20 dollars per barrel.  Some of us recall when oil was below $10 dollars.

The Dispatch has consistently erred in describing how Alaska has come to multi- billion dollar deficits.  We have oil at around $50 dollars per barrel, and oil was well above that in 2015.  

What the Dispatch is doing is ignoring the impact of the SB-21 giveaway of our oil, and how giving away the oil (unconstitutionally) is directly responsible for much of the size of the current deficit.  The Dispatch is not alone in this- others that should better (like ISER)-  are letting Alaskans down by not acknowledging the truth of SB-21.