Wrangell Sentinel -

Alaska faces a seriously long list of long-term serious problems.

Our population is aging, people are not moving here fast enough to replace those who leave, too many employers lack enough workers to fully staff their operations, and the state’s finances are as stable as oil prices — which is to say not.

State funding for K-12 education is frozen in time from the past decade.

We maintain our deteriorating public buildings about as well as a teenager cleans their room.

And we seem in a contest to see which is in shorter supply in our communities— new housing or child care services. No matter wh...