Print article Q: A couple decades ago, Anchorage’s downtown was booming. How do we get back to that — and what actions would you take as mayor to help us get there? Dave Bronson: I’m a commercial aviator, and there’s kind of a rule in flying. In short, if you do, if you change something on the airplane and something really bad happens, immediately reverse what you just did. What we have to do is we have to reverse what we did in the shutdown. We have to just, we’ve got to allow our entrepreneurs and our small business men and women to run their businesses, free of encumbrances from the mayor’s office — or in, frankly, as much of government as we can.