Mike Wenstrup

OPINION: With so much disarray in their party and failures of leadership, it should be no surprise that Republican Party leaders are grasping at straws to distract Alaskans.

OPINION: The federal government and other states have allowed themselves to be crippled by partisanship. That isn’t the Alaska way.

OPINION: The last thing Alaska needs is a senator whose Canada-first policies discourage North Slope investment and continue to flood the global market with cheap oil.

Sometimes it takes an election season to get politicians focused on the right priorities. With a competitive governor's race coming up this fall, Sean Parnell finally is talking about issues Democrats have been focused on for a long time: raising education funding and eliminating bureaucratic red tape.