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Letter to the Editor: Property tax cap could limit Juneau’s services

I am opposed to Proposition 1 that caps property tax

Juneau’s cruise ship dock is seen July 11, 2025, in Juneau, Alaska. (Photo by Erin Thompson/Juneau Empire file)

Opinion

My Turn: Keeping Juneau affordable means setting the right priorities

The city already has the resources it needs

The nameplate of Brendan Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, at a hearing in Washington on Feb. 27, 2025. While “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” returned to ABC on Sept. 23, Carr has promised to continue his campaign against what he sees as liberal bias in broadcasts. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times)

Opinion

My Turn: Freedom vanishing: The authoritarian takeover has begun

The warning signs are everywhere

Photo by Ned Rozell
Golds and greens of aspens and birches adorn a hillside above the Angel Creek drainage east of Fairbanks.

Sports

Alaska Science Forum: The season of senescence is upon us

Trees and other plants are simply shedding what no longer suits them

Chloe Anderson for the Juneau Empire
A bald eagle is pictured near Eagle Beach on Sept. 16.

Neighbors

Weekly Wonder: Eagles, a symbol of hope and patriotism

Every time I see an eagle down south, I think of Rachel Carson

Candidates for the school board and Juneau Assembly participate in a candidate forum hosted by the Juneau League of Women Voters and KTOO on Friday, Sept. 19, 2025. (screenshot)

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School board, Assembly candidates discuss issues at League of Women forum

Election day is Oct. 7

The existing 70-year-old Juneau City Hall. (Clarise Larson / Juneau Empire File)

News

Juneau Assembly OKs $10M purchase of new city hall office space

Purchasing two floors of the Michael J. Burns Building will cost $10.2 million, with an estimated $7.7 million…

Land and marine hazards released by the National Weather Service were updated Monday, Sept. 22. (National Weather Service screenshot)

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High winds in Juneau today, flood warning expected through Tuesday

Two landslides along Auke Lake Trail prompted the trail’s closure on Saturday

Juneau’s cruise ship dock is seen July 11, 2025. (Photo by Erin Thompson/Juneau Empire file)

News

Juneau chamber opposes Proposition 3, takes no stance on Propositions 1 and 2

Proposition 3 would institute a 7.5% sales tax rate from April through September

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Opinion

Letter to the Editor: Charlie Kirk’s voice cannot be silenced

All Americans should abhor political violence

Win Gruening (courtesy)

Opinion

Opinion: New city hall plan deserves voter scrutiny

In a Committee of the Whole meeting on Sept. 8, CBJ Assembly members voted to advance an ordinance…

City and Borough of Juneau City Hall is photographed on July 12, 2025, in Juneau, Alaska. (Photo by Erin Thompson/Juneau Empire file)

Opinion

My Turn: We know the City’s finances. We think the stakes couldn’t be higher in this year’s local election

The ballot will ask voters three questions that seek to change how Juneau collects the money needed for…

Pins supporting the repeal of ranked choice voting are seen on April 20, 2024, at the Republican state convention in Anchorage. (James Brooks/Alaska Beacon)

Opinion

My Turn: Juneau doesn’t need ranked choice voting

Save taxpayer money and reject ranked choice voting

A switchback ramp leads up to Telephone Hill Park downtown in July 2023. (Clarise Larson / Juneau Empire)

Opinion

Letter to the Editor: Speak out against razing of Telephone Hill

I am hopeful that our assembly will put a stop to this ill-conceived idea when they hear the…

Things you won’t find camping in Southeast Alaska. (Jeff Lund/Juneau Empire)

Sports

I Went to the Woods: Sodium and serenity

The terrain of interior Alaska is captivating in a way that Southeast isn’t

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Adam Bauer of the Local Spiritual Assembly of Bahá’í of Juneau.

Neighbors

Living and Growing: The paradox of freedom

Religion teaches that spiritual freedom is found not in the rejection of all limits, but in choosing the…

Juneau blotter tease

News

Police calls, Sept. 14-16

This report contains public information available to the Empire from law enforcement and public safety agencies. This report…

An overhead view of Telephone Hill in downtown Juneau. (Photo courtesy of the City and Borough of Juneau)

Opinion

My Turn: Some facts regarding Telephone Hill

There is every appearance of “fire, aim, ready”

A makeshift memorial on the Utah Valley University campus, where Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated by a gunman a few days earlier, in Orem, Utah, Sept. 14, 2025. (Loren Elliott/The New York Times)

Opinion

Opinion: Attentive listening humanizes our political adversaries

Today, we Americans are good at talking to like-minded people

A brown bear near the boundary of Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in King Cove, Alaska, May 18, 2022. The Trump administration is poised to approve a deal that would allow a long contentious project to build a road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, a vast wild area in southwestern Alaska, according to internal Interior Department documents reviewed by The New York Times. (Acacia Johnson/The New York Times)

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Trump nears deal for road through Alaskan wildlife refuge

The deal calls for the Interior Department to transfer 490 acres of land within the Izembek National Wildlife…