Enough with the CBJ committees, special committees, blue ribbon panels, and task forces slow walking solutions to big tourism.

Thankfully, only one of the four candidates for governor in the Nov. 3 statewide general election needs a refresher course in math. The rest know that 2 plus 2 equals 4. But Republican Bernadette Wilson, running for her first elected public office, is proving to voters that numbers don’t need to add up when you want to win bad enough.

Thankfully we still live in a functioning democracy — we can decide together to act in support of our city’s well-being.

This Saturday while driving home on Mendenhall Loop Road I recorded on my dashcam a young person on his e-bike dashing across the road in front of oncoming traffic.

The Juneau Assembly Committee of the Whole decided on Aug. 31 against advancing an ordinance proposed by Assembly members Alicia Hughes-Skandijs, Christine Woll and Paul Kelly to codify the five-ship-a-day cruise ship limit.

A quick internet search finds that 9% of the current U.S. cabinet secretaries are billionaires and 35% of the current administration are worth over $100 million.

In retrospect, it is common to muse on the things we would change if we could. Some see revisiting past losses and mistakes as time spent idle, but there is value in regret. If you regret nothing you have done, it may simply mean you failed to learn from the mistakes of the past. The value of regret is in not repeating them.

If “No Kings” means anything, it means standing up to entrenched power in our own backyard. This is why we vote.

Over the past half century, there have been periodic efforts to move Alaska’s state capital from Juneau to southcentral Alaska. The arguments have included proximity to Alaska’s largest population and easier access to the legislature for most Alaskans.

Sen. Dan Sullivan is not a free man. At least not as free as Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.). And maybe not as free as his brother Frank. Unlike Alaska’s junior senator who tethered his political fortunes to the unforgiving tyranny of President Donald Trump, they can talk about how the war with Iran and his tariffs have created economic havoc for American households and businesses.

While environmentalists oppose the Trump administration’s proposed rollback of the Roadless Rule, which would remove prohibitions on road construction and logging on nearly 59 million acres of national forest, I see this as an opportunity for professional foresters to manage federal land, reduce wildfire risk and boost the economy.

I support recreation in Juneau. And I’m voting no on Proposition C, the seasonal sales tax. Those two positions are not contradictory.