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Opinion: Expansion of voting rights, including voting by mail, should have bipartisan support

Anything else is unAmerican.

It's a police car until you look closely and see the details don't quite match. (Juneau Empire File / Michael Penn)

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Police calls for Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021

This report contains public information from law enforcement and public safety agencies.

This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, yellow, emerging from the surface of cells, blue/pink, cultured in the lab. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, NIAID-RML

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COVID at a glance for Monday, Oct. 11

The most recent state and local figures

This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, yellow, emerging from the surface of cells, blue/pink, cultured in the lab. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, NIAID-RML

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COVID at a glance for Tuesday, Oct. 12

The most recent state and local figures

It's a police car until you look closely and see the details don't quite match. (Juneau Empire File / Michael Penn)

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Police calls for Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021

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Neighbors

Slack Tide: Meditations on October

A Liver Awareness Month to remember.

Sam Sika, a junior who plays full back and defensive line for the Huskies, celebrates after scoring a touchdown against South Anchorage High School. (Ben Hohenstatt / Juneau Empire)

Sports

Photos: The Juneau Huskies’ season from practice to playoffs

The season continues at 3 p.m. Saturday.

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Letters to the Editor

Opinion: Comparing pandemic mitigation measures to Holocaust trivializes horrors

Such comparisons are painful to Jews everywhere, including in our Juneau community.

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Letters to the Editor

Opinion: Take medical advice from health care pros, not the internet

It is wise to get vaccinated and to mask up.

A screenshot of a website created for the American Meteor Society showing reports from Alaska residents about a fireball that exploded above Alaska on Sept. 30, 2021. The blue arrow is the estimated direction of the fireball. (Screenshot)

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Alaska Science Forum: Space rocks streak through the Alaska sky

By Ned Rozell

Gavel (Courtesy photo)

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Judge sides with psychiatrists who alleged wrongful firing

Two psychiatrists said they were wrongfully fired when Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy took office.

It's a police car until you look closely and see the details don't quite match. (Juneau Empire File / Michael Penn)

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Police calls for Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021

This report contains public information from law enforcement and public safety agencies.

Guy Crockroft is executive director of Love Inc Juneau. (Courtesy Photo)

Neighbors

Living & Growing: Stone cold guilty on Mercy Street

Have you ever driven the wrong way down a one-way street? I have.

A voter places a ballot in the drop box at the Mendenhall Public Library vote center on Tuesday, Oct. 5. Ben Hohenstatt / Juneau Empire)

Opinion

Opinion: Remember the good old voting days?

I remember the good old days of two years ago and before.

Lawmakers havereturned to the Alaska State Capitol for a fourth special session. (Peter Segall / Juneau Empire File)

Opinion

Opinion: Revenues should be determined before more PFD spending

The governor believes the dividend drives the entire calculation. Sadly, he has it backwards

It's a police car until you look closely and see the details don't quite match. (Juneau Empire File / Michael Penn)

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Police calls for Friday, Oct. 8, 2021

This report contains public information from law enforcement and public safety agencies.

(Ben Hohenstatt/Juneau Empire)

Opinion

Opinion: Will your vote count?

The integrity of our vote cannot be jeopardized in pursuit of participation.

It's a police car until you look closely and see the details don't quite match. (Juneau Empire File / Michael Penn)

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Police calls for Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021

This report contains public information from law enforcement and public safety agencies.

A male sockeye salmon spawns in Bristol Bay. (Courtesy Photo / Jonny Armstrong)

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Pride of Bristol Bay: Life of a sockeye

It only took one sockeye to remind of how lucky I am to live in a world with…

A sign designates a vote center at the Mendenhall Valley Public Library on Oct. 5, 2021. (Ben Hohenstatt / Juneau Empire)

Opinion

Opinion: The lost joys of in-person voting

For the second year in a row, voting was an anti-climactic, diminished experience.