Guess it's time that we should all just move on...what a depressing article. But, I don't see it happening the way you have portrayed business in Alaska. Just last September/October there was definitely an uptick on several entrepreneurial business fronts...whether that uptick keeps moving, I'm not sure. Yes, gone are the copious number of slick financial brokers, less slopers are traveling from Idaho or the Kenai Penin., instead real business is beginning to take root that is not driven by overinflated fuel prices or excessive public funding.