text: A malevolent odor pervades the entire Alaskan fiscal scene ... & it is due  to the choke hold held by BigOil Y other BigBusiness on all attempts to straighten things out in Juneau - that & the enduring temptation to pluck the low hanging fruit - the PFD.  Sloppy mismanagement & misplaced sympathies such as Sen.Stevens saying "We don't want to see Mark (Pfeiffer) get hurt" when dealing with the Anchorage LIO fraud - which got lost in the shuffle, but today, still drains public funds. 
  In years past I often thought the Legislature should be advised: "Don't just do something ... sit there" which seems to be what has taken place for the past 2 years.  
  But we need action to correct the horrible policies of the recent past - such as SB21, ending mega-project spending, reducing the cost of  welcome baskets to new hires - i.e. Keith Meyer-the new CEO of the LNG Pipe Dream project. And we need to bring state audits of the oil industry up to date - among hundreds of other fiscally sane changes.