Governor Dunleavy’s big idea was to slash Alaska’s population by 13 to 30 percent, or 100,000 to 300,000 people. That, along with draconian budget vetoes, was intended to address declining oil revenues. But it wasn’t just the poor people needing housing programs, pre-K, dental services, and Medicaid who were leaving the state as he had hoped. The proposal to hack funding for research with cuts to the university created a brain drain amounting to a…