From time to time I use a second blog — Observations and Updates: A Companion to Thoughts on Alaska Oil & Gas — for posts. Normally, posts on that blog are more about upcoming talk radio and other appearances, but sometimes, especially when I have a post on this blog that I want to keep at the top for a few days, I will post more substantive pieces.
Readers of this blog are able to follow the posts on the second by paging down the right hand side of this blog to the box headed “The Last Five from Observations & Updates.” Readers also are able to follow posts made to that blog by subscribing via email or RSS feed (both available down the right side of the front page of that blog).
The reason I raise it now is, because I have wanted to feature my most recent column from the Alaska Business Monthly on this blog for the past couple of weeks, I have made a few, more substantive posts recently to the second that I thought readers of this page might find of interest if they have not otherwise noticed them. To hi-lite them, I offer links and the lead ins below:
Alaska Fiscal Policy| Watching different movies …
Wednesday, March 13. There is a phrase that lawyers (and perhaps others) sometimes use that came to mind as I was reading a KMXT (the Kodiak NPR station) post containing some recent remarks by Rep. Alan Austerman, the Co-Chair of House Finance. …
Alaska Oil Policy| Really? …
Tuesday, March 12. This week’s edition of Juneau AP reporter Becky Bohrer’s “3 things to watch for in the Alaska Legislature”contains an interesting admission from the Governor. Discussing the oil tax bill, Bohrer writes: …
Alaska Oil| An interesting exchange with Jack Roderick …
Sunday, March 10. There are few Alaskans more experienced in the oil industry and few books from which I have learned more about that industry than Jack Roderick and his book Crude Dreams. If you are interested in the topics I discuss on these pages and haven’t read the book, you should. …
Alaska Budget| Some progress, but a long, long way to go …
Thursday, March 7. This week’s release by the House Finance Committee of its proposed FY 2013 Operating Budget is worth noting. It provides a good time to check in and see where the legislature is on developing a sustainable state budget. …
Alaska Oil| An interesting Federal policy decision …
Sunday, March 3. Under the Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007 (FINSA), the federal government is empowered to “review transactions that could result in control of a U.S. business by a foreign person, in order to determine the effect of such transactions on the national security of the United States.” FINSA reviews are conducted by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), an interagency committee chaired and coordinated by the Department of Treasury. …
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