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Tankers Atalanta T and Atlantic Frontier offload a combined 525,000 barrels of jet fuel at the Port of Alaska on Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. The port has a total liquid fuel storage capacity of 3.4 million barrels, or over 140 million gallons. (Loren Holmes / ADN)

Transforming Alaska’s next 60 years: The inter-continental railway

https://www.adn.com/opinions/2019/01/23/transforming-alaskas-next-60-years-the-inter-continental-railway/ Anyone who has read the 10-part series, “Alaska Emergency Employment Mobilization” already knows American System great projects such as the “Railroad Around the World” have been a feature of…

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Anyone who has read the 10-part series, “Alaska Emergency Employment Mobilization” already knows American System great projects such as the “Railroad Around the World” have been a feature of Alaska’s development plan for a very long time. This project was first promoted by Russian Count Sergei Witte in the 1890s.

Anyone who has read the 10-part series, “Alaska Emergency Employment Mobilization” already knows American System great projects such as the “Railroad Around the World” have been a feature of Alaska’s…

Continue ReadingAnyone who has read the 10-part series, “Alaska Emergency Employment Mobilization” already knows American System great projects such as the “Railroad Around the World” have been a feature of Alaska’s development plan for a very long time. This project was first promoted by Russian Count Sergei Witte in the 1890s.

The United Alaska Campaigner 35th year edition—January 2019, Alaska Emergency Employment Mobilization, Part 10, Alaska State Bank

This writing project was never fully completed because I lacked the huge amount of historical research that I knew was necessary to finish.  I continued working on my China project…

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Do we need another state loan program?

https://www.adn.com/opinions/2018/12/26/do-we-need-another-state-loan-program/?fbclid=IwAR2ZF-TUi_uH5p4gmAtxEGvjlbyj2cI-aroBScuOoDm3byRHuO6eX-OPQM4 Frank Murkowski rejects creating a new loan authority as part of the Alaska Permanent Fund using simplistic political cronyism and duplicated bureaucracy arguments. Even though I agree with some…

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