Larry Persily

Putting a price on dishonesty may be the only way to stop it.

Maybe the U.S. government could earn airline mileage from putting trillions of dollars of new debt on a credit card.

One department store clerk’s thoughtfulness didn’t completely renew my hope in the world, but it sure helped.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy made a pledge and he’s stickin’ to it. Too bad he’s putting national anti-tax politics above tax fairness in Alaska.

One supermarket owner is less competitive than two, and more competition is good for shoppers. Taylor sees the math differently.

Alaskans keep fiddling, placing political gains over responsible public policy while too many candidates pledge allegiance to the dividend.

The five bills that the governor correctly vetoed were not monumental, nor will the vetoes ruin anyone’s life. And one bill was downright silly.

Elon Musk’s company X describes Grok as an “AI search assistant with a twist of humor,” as if erroneously reporting the news is a harmless joke.

Newspaper owners’ economic salvation rests in committing a crime and soliciting donations. Even better if convicted.

Breaking the law to get on the ballot, hiding the identity of donors and cleansing the money through a pop-up church is not how the system should work.

Out with the old and in with the new seems irreversible, as I suppose it should be.

Low prices make life more affordable; public services without tax revenue is unaffordable.

This is Alaska, where nothing has to pencil out if we dream hard enough.

I hope the political parties eventually will summon the nerve to tell Father Time to sit down and let a younger crowd take over. It’s their turn.

We know it’s not healthy to keep eating oversized portions, but we can’t help ourselves.