What the author missed in the story was the number of people from the NW US that relocate to Alaska and then eventually move back home.  

The Dispatch needs to do a similar study but expand it somewhat.  Who moves here from where and declares residency?  Who comes here just to work without declaring residency.  Where do the shortest lived residency folks come from, why did they move here and why did they move away?

And to Senator Costello,  it ain't SB 91.