Two things need to be done, fix the oil and other non renewable resource taxes so we are not giving them away to mostly non local multinational corporations, and restart the income tax so Alaska stops being a haven for non-resident workers who never intend to live here and like the big coporations take the money to spend elsewhere. Some of the biggest employers of non resident workers include oil, fishing, construction, mining and tourism. Once we stop Alaska from being treated like some outpost available for outsiders to take from, and encourage local business and value added exports  and local products many of our economic woes would be gone.