…just had to share our weekend black Bear encounter (NGP Photo) with my reader/friends! We were closer to this back yard bruin than we were a weekend earlier to the Brown Bears of the Alaska Peninsula! (ADN Story and Photo)
Readers: Check out this Calgary Herald article by Rebecca Penty outlining the celebration of Alberta’s investment climate. Then, compare that to Deborah Brollini’s article, below, portraying how the greed of certain Alaska lawmakers is destroying Alaska’s investment 
climate and creating a bear market for Alaska’s children tomorrow…and read Alaska Natural Resources Commissioner Dan Sullivan’s (NGP Photo) ADN Op-Ed this morning. -dh
Anchorage Press Guest Editorial by Deborah Brollini (NGP Photo). My fight for
Alaska began in 2009. I had already been uncomfortable with the direction Alaska was heading, and I knew it was Alaska’s Clear and Equitable Share (ACES) tax regime that was the culprit of our state’s economic downturn. … I am in total support of the governor, and his efforts to revise ACES, and move Alaska forward. Unfortunately, Senator Bert Stedman made his decision last summer that he wanted to "study," and had no intention of moving on ACES this past legislative session-thus crushing any dreams of oil tax reform because all roads lead through Stedman. Senator Stedman announced this to Alaskans immediately after the governor’s State of the State address to the legislature at press availability-how passive aggressive of him. In 2007, Senator Stedman voted "no" on ACES, and Sitka took a hit in the capital budget because of it. I know Bert Stedman knows that ACES needs to be revised because he was with Ralph Samuels, Jay Ramras and I at the Corsair in October 2009 when we discussed ACES 
and Ralph’s run for governor. So don’t think Senator Bert Stedman doesn’t feel ACES needs to be reformed. He does, and I heard it directly from him.
PN by AP. Governor Sean Parnell (NGP Photo) told The Associated Press he is currently working to get the votes needed in the Senate to advance the tax cut narrowly passed by the House during the regular legislative session. The bill stalled in the Senate, with leaders in the majority bloc saying they didn’t have the information needed to make a sound decision, but the bill will still be in play when the Legislature reconvenes in January.
Sinse Alaska’s destiny is in the hands of state and federal officials, we provide this take on the Obama-Salazar-Bromwich energy and ‘moratorium’ policy (See our earlier comment):
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