What would have been a better closing to this article; would have been solutions derived from experts in the field on economics and politicians unafraid to vote for true solutions. Your closing statement is something WE ALL KNOW. As a 40 year plus resident, I have watched Alaska take the wrong path just like every other state in the union, when we had the best opportunity to actually get it right. It's almost humorous how we promoted all these big projects over the past 30 years, thinking OIL & oil prices would hold up forever, yet here we are many years later, and not a single one of them ever got built. The only thing that got built was the pocketbooks of "experts & analysts" for "STUDIES" on these projects. However, your article is correct on many statements. One, our elected are so afraid to make a hard decision. That is the real crime here. Party line this, party line that, what is it getting us. NOTHING.
Change needs to come to how we move forward. It must happen fast, or else...