Reality Check w/ John Tracy: Lawmakers will get serious this session

I’m an optimist by nature and a cynic by experience.
But this year, I’m optimistic the Alaska Legislature will finally take steps to put the state on a sustainable path; optimistic because after blowing through $13 billion of our savings in the last 4 years, there are only two years of funding left in the Constitutional Budget Reserve (CBR).
If lawmakers don’t deal with it this year, they’ll be left with even tougher decisions next year — an election year. So, for o