January 1986 COVER: SQUEEZE PLAY: Competition has small independent grocers in a rundown

THE RETURN OF THE GOLDEN AGE OF FAIRBANKS

SOUTHEAST BANKING: Where's the beef?

ENGINEER DENNIS NOTTINGHAM: Hurdling Alaska's development obstacles with a pencil and a slide rule

February 1986 COVER: BRIDGING THE VISITOR GAP - Seasonal diversification of Alaska's second biggest industry faces formidable challenges

CRISIS IN RESOURCE PRODUCTION - Can America compete?

ALASKA'S CAUTIOUS BID TO EXTEND A ONE-SEASON INDUSTRY: Seasonal diversification of Alaska's second biggest industry faces formidable challenges

ALASKAN WOODS BRANCHES OUT, SEEKS NEW ROOTS FOR REVENUES

MUSHING FOR FUN AND PROFITS - Girdwood's Bob Crockett has turned his love of dog-sledding into a business with Chugach Express

EMPLOYEE TRAINING: Small investments and hefty returns

SOUTHEAST AIR CARRIERS FASTEN SEAT BELTS FOR THE BUMPY RIDE AHEAD: Competition is intensifying in the skies of the Panhandle, where the impacts of airline deregulation have been slow in arriving

ALASKA'S COMPETITIVE POSITION: Public policy issues

March 1986 COVER: MARGINAL: Can Alaska's oil industry survive government green and environmental extremism?

PATRIARCH JOE JACKOVICH KEEPS IT ALL IN THE FAMILY

BOB BELL: ENGINEERING A MONOPOLY IN A SHRINKING MARKET - Anchorage-based F. Robert Bell & Associates has cornered North Slope surveying work and continued to grow despite downturns in its key markets

OIL TAXES AND SEPARATE ACCOUNTING - The legislative battle over whether to change oil tax regulations again may be over for 1986, but the war is still to come

REINFORCING THE WEAK LINK IN ALASKA'S DAIRY CHAIN- Milk production in Alaska has increased significantly, but milk prices haven't kept pace

April 1986 COVER: ALASKA AIRLINES' 9 1/2 CENT DILEMMA: It's multimillion dollar future hinges on less than a dime

DONNYBROOK BUILDING SUPPLY: The Fairbanks firm where explosive growth was the silver lining and the cloud

SQUEEZING REVENUES FROM A SHRINKING MARKET - Alaska Marine Highway System chief Joe Camp is learning to cope with the Catch 22 of boosting revenues while cutting costs - in an increasingly competitive market

STEVE SHROPSHIRE'S POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION IN GROWTH - How the Green Connection's owner learned to survive by nourishing his knowledge of horticultural growth with a new understanding of business growth

THE ATRIUM BUILDING - Adapting to the plants

CITY MORTGAGE PIPELINES PRIVATE FUNDS INTO ALASKA'S HOUSING MARKET

May 1986 COVER: IS IT TIME TO GET THE POLITICS OUT OF ALASKA'S FERRY SYSTEM?

SELLING TIME AS A COMMODITY: Security Aviation's strategy for charter airline success

ANCHORAGE'S PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP PROMOTES DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT - The associate partner and planning director of an Anchorage architectural and planning firm explores two public-private projects underway in Anchorage and their implications for future development

WHEN HUMANA SAID GET UP AND GO, MARY WILLIS GOT UP AND WENT - Her drive, ability, maturity and willingness to pack up and move from one corner of the country to the other on a moments notice have made Mary Willis the top private sector health care executive in Alaska at the age of 32

ALASKA'S REFINERS AND THE TWO-EDGED SWORD OF PLUMMETING PETRO PRICES

NORTH POLE'S SHARON MAVENCAMP: Intuition and a big dose of business sense

PRIVATIZATION AND THE STATE OF ALASKA, INC. - Introduction to Alaska Business Monthly's three-part series on privatizing Alaska's public enterprises

1986: A BANNER YEAR FOR SOUTHEAST VISITOR VOLUME, BUT WILL IT BE A BANNER year for visitor spending?

HOW JUNEAU'S NEW WATERFRONT HOTEL STACKS UP

June 1986 COVER: PRIVATIZATION & THE GHOSTS OF ALASKA RAILROAD PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE - Jalmar Scrooge is visited by the Ghosts of Alaska Railroad Past, Present & Future

THE EXCEPTION TO THE RULE - Dillingham-based Choggiung Limited is one Native Corporation that has sustained steady growth in retained earnings

FAIRBANKS PROPHET CHUCK REES - The owner of North Star Terminals promotes and benefits from industrial development in the Interior

ALASKA'S FISHERMAN SHOULD STRIKE THE MOTHERLODE THIS SEASON... But will lower prices tarnish the glow?

EASTWIND'S JERRY HARMON - This Anchorage contractor has won some of the largest road construction contracts ever awarded by the state and municipality

SQUARING OFF ON ALASKA'S NEW ECONOMIC CHESS BOARD - Alaskan businesses are identifying skills and strategies for operating in a contracting economy

July 1986 COVER: BRACING FOR THE WINDS OF CHANGE: Alaska's financial services industry

HELD OVER: Alaska Stagecraft has grown for 10 years by adapting to changes in the market.

PUBLISHING ALASKA'S SMALL TOWN NEWSPAPER: Who'll pay the piper?

TUNDRA DRUMMER: Rosie Porter: Bethel's watchdog

QUOTATIONS FROM CHAIRMAN FRED - Since arriving in Alaska a quarter of a century ago, Anchorage's Fred Chiei has been an outspoken champion of free enterprise

COVER STORY: Hurricane Watch - Alaska's financial services industry battens down the hatches as recession threatens to turn the winds of deregulatory change into a major storm

IN SEARCH OF A SILVER LINING - Ketchikan looks for a pot of gold at the end of its stormy economic rainbow

BRIGHTER PROSPECTS FOR MOST PANHANDLE PLAYERS

August 1986 COVER: AMERICAN STANDOFF - An Alaskan entrepreneur's duel with Uncle Sam

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE BEAUTY OF PORTAGE GLACIER LODGE'S SANCTIONED MONOPOLY

CANVASS COFFEE AND CHOW - Tales of three Fairbanks entrepreneurs.

MAD AS HELL - Frank Price's Meteor Data Inc. has been competing with a consortium of federal agencies for non-federal meteor burst communications business.

ALASKA POWER AUTHORITY: Without Susitna, is it water over the dam?

THE THREE R'S OF BUILDING A TRADE BRIDGE TO CHINA - To do business with China, Alaskan businesses must reach out, relate and repeat

September 1986 COVER: THE NEW 49ERS

SPECIAL SECTION: THE NEW 49ERS - New 49er Rankings. New 49er Employee Ranking & Sales Per Employee. 2001 A New 49ers Odyssey

LUCKY LINDSEY - The petroleum distribution operations of this Seward entrepreneur topped all Alaskan-owned businesses in revenue growth

CHANGING FORTUNES: Revenue Gainers and Losers

ALASKA'S MARINE FUEL TAX - Is the tax on ships plying Alaskan waters a boon or liability to state coffers?

WHO'S MINDING THE STORE? - Changes in the grocery industry in 1985 favored larger chains at the expense of smaller merchants

ECON 401 - Transalaska Data Services learns about profit in a low-growth economy

October 1986 COVER: LAKE CLARK'S STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: Civilization comes to a national park

THE $500 RESTAURANT TAB - How restaurant owner Maria-Lena Ball concocted a healthy cash flow with her appetizing 2-for-1 special

LARSONS LAND A CHINOOK - As they pour the first mugs of Chinook Alaskan, the Larsons of Juneau aim to tap the market for local brews

TOOHEY'S TWO FINDS - The historic Crow Creek Gold Mine still is producing. Owner Cynthia Toohey mines gold and the tourist trade at the historic site

ON A SLOW BOAT TO ALASKA - The deployment of new slow-speed diesel vessels should deliver improved efficiency to Sea-Land's Alaska service

MARKAIR COMES OF AGE - After weathering stormy formative years, the maturing regional air carrier is projecting its first profit

JOE USIBELLI: A man with energy to spare

COAL'S BIGGEST CHEERLEADER - Joe Usibelli makes his case for coal-fired power generation

PROSPECTING GREENS CREEK - Road building at the Admiralty Island mineral development may signal readiness to begin excavating for pay dirt

November 1986 COVER: FOREIGN INVESTMENT: Is it Alaska's economic cure or its ailment?

ROBERT ELY: A healer of broken bottom lines

SEEING DOUBLE - The Port of Anchorage is promoting a dual port strategy to generate expansion for its land-locked terminal

EAGLE RIVER: Anchorage's gateway to and from Alaska

CAUGHT IN THE VORTEX - Water quality regulations and environmentalists' lawsuits threaten the viability of many Alaskan placer mines

ALL THAT GLITTERS - Alaskan miners are positioning to capitalize on climbing gold and platinum prices

FROM POTLUCK TO PRIME - When Echo Lake Lockers pared its grocery to a butcher shop, it carved a choice market that continues to grow

DEALING WITH REORGANIZATION - When you've got a business in trouble, some important considerations can help you make the right decisions about downsizing
 

December 1986 COVER: BAMBI VS GODZILLA. THE BATTLE OF ANWR

IT'S TIME FOR REASON - A Georgia congressman who describes himself as a strong environmentalist and an avid outdoorsman explains why he'll support responsible development in the Coastal Plain

THE BRISTLY CASE OF THE PORCUPINE CARIBOU - Why environmental moderates are concerned about the impact of Coastal Plain oil activity

CON'S CHRISTMAS CAROL - It's Christmas 365 days a year at Con Miller's Santa Claus House in North Pole

MR. WHITEKEYS: A sleazy piano player and a business survivor

CROSSWINDS AT THE AIR CROSSROADS - Changing aircraft technology and international routes threaten to alter traffic patterns and revenues at Anchorage International Airport

FOR PEAT'S SAKE - Will development of Alaska's abundant peat resources bring paydirt or petty cash into the economy?

PIONEERING IN PEAT - Mat-Su Energy Corp's 20-megawatt power plant will be the first test of peat's potential as an energy resource

ALASKA'S BUSINESS ENEMY NUMBER ONE - Who's done the most to discourage business in Alaska? Now it's official!