Washington Post Magazine, by Julia Duin. … This 
was Alice Rogoff (NGP Photo), wife of billionaire David Rubenstein and a former Washington business executive turned owner and publisher of Alaska’s largest newspaper. Rogoff had spent nine days piloting her single-engine Cessna 206 from village to village as her reporters covered 70-plus mushers crossing the state. …
Rogoff’s husband was casting about for a post-White House career. In 1987, he co-founded the Carlyle Group, which would become one of the largest private equity management firms in the world. One of his earliest successes involved taking advantage of a loophole in the 1986 Tax Reform Act that allowed firms owned by Alaska Natives to sell off their tax losses to corporations in search of write-offs. Carlyle raked in millions in fees, in what critics referred to as “the Great Eskimo Tax Scam.”
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Note: Alice Rogoff's Alaska House project in NYC was how we first became acquainted. Reference: 1, 2, 3) We were concerned that Rogoff was seeking financial support from Alaska's Legislature when Alaska House was being partly used by an environmental group opposed to Alaska resource development. While we appreciated Rogoff's motives and consider her to be an honorable person, we also believe her loyalties among free enterprise, Native, environmental, social, and international special interests to be unpredictable and divided. Accordingly, her Anchorage Dispatch News acquisition tends to present a mostly left of center viewpoint in a state whose Constitution requires a mostly right of center approach to resource development. -dh |
Rogoff established the Alaska Native Arts Foundation in Anchorage and purchased a house there in 2006. She seemed to see herself as Alaska’s unofficial ambassador to the East Coast. In 2005, the foundation set up a three-day festival at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington; a few years later, it established a 3,000-square-foot gallery named Alaska House in Manhattan’s Soho district.
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