Former governor Tony Knowles on state budget

Tony Knowles, former governor of Alaska does not think state government will shut down.
Knowles told KTVA Monday, he introduced a bill on an income tax and measure to use the permanent fund earnings when oil went to $9 a barrel, but, he said those measures weren’t needed because the price went up.
“Probably, if it had been tough for a little while longer, we could have made some of the permanent changes that would have helped us today,” he said. “But, that’s the gre