TASK DEFINITION: Categorize the comment on the basis of threat. If the comment is threatening output Yes, otherwise output No.
PROBLEM: Hmm...I too worked in DOC prior to Department level status when it was still an entity of H&SS under Helen Bierne thru to it's morphing into a Department. It has grown a lot. More staff, more inmates, more institutions. As with any entity that gets large, especially government, "Murphy's Law" at all levels kicks in all the much harder. Kevin Brew and Gerald Tamura commented. These people have "seen this elephant" during long careers and no doubt could speak at length.Time will tell how Dean Williams as Commissioner will work out. But one word of caution to him: Don't be the type of Commissioner that places the staff in the position of becoming more concerned of the "figurative knife" in the back from administration rather than being able to concentrate on their job. It has happened all too often.

SOLUTION: Yes

PROBLEM: You're right. I don't care. They'll game us for every slim percentage they can, as long as we'll let them.  They're more than welcome to go drill for someone else's oil in the 3rd world, where their investments can be seized, and their people are routinely kidnapped/murdered etc.

Our legislature is supposed to advocate for AK, and it's clear that these people won't do their job.

The majors make enormous return here, and they always have. The only way we could ever drive them away from AK, would be at gunpoint. They aren't going anywhere.

SOLUTION: Yes

PROBLEM: Sounds like some of this attitude might have come from home.

SOLUTION:
No