...tax is the only reason the (gas pipeline) discussion is still alive," he said. Murkowski said Attorney General David W. Marquez was asked whether the legislature could pass a law that is substantially the same as the reserve tax initiative with...

...negotiations with North Slope producers that cost him his job. Irwin sent a confidential memo to former Attorney General David W. Marquez, asking whether the state was conducting negotiations outside the law and to the long-term detriment of the state...