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School district shares lunch distribution details

Schedule and prices.

An empty downtown port on Sunday, June 12, 2020. The coronavirus pandemic effectively shut down the tourist industry for the 2020 season. Southeast Alaska has been hit particularly hard by job loss, but jobs are down throughout the state, according to state data. (Peter Segall / Juneau Empire File)

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Jobs in Alaska down 39,900 last month

Southeast Alaska hit especially hard by the coronavirus’ economic fallout.

Health and education experts, including Juneau School District Superintendent Bridget Weiss, gave testimony to lawmakers Thursday on the challenges facing schools as they try and reopen in the pandemic (Peter Segall / Juneau Empire File)

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Opinion: Why schools aren’t reopening

Examining the cause of reopening fears.

Police calls for Friday, Aug. 21, 2020

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Police calls for Friday, Aug. 21, 2020

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

Konrad Steffen, wears glasses and a yellow tie, at the White House in 2016, where he represented Switzerland at the first Arctic Ministerial Conference. (Courtesy Photo / Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape)

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Glaciologist dies in Greenland crevasse

The glaciologist never worked in Alaska, but Steffen’s work influenced a scientist here.

Supporters of the opposition flash victory signs as a police patrol walks by warning people that the protest is not authorized and asking them to leave in Minsk, Belarus, Friday, Aug. 21, 2020. Belarus’ authorities have detained a leader of striking factory workers and threatened protesters with criminal charges in a bid to stem massive protests challenging the extension of the 26-year rule of the country’s authoritarian president Alexander Lukashenko, who accused the U.S. of fomenting the unrest and vowed to see a quick end to protests. (AP Photo / Sergei Grits)

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Opinion: Recent criticism of white privilege misses the mark

“White privilege” is not a slogan or a doctrine.

Opinion: An update from the Alaska Marine Highway System Reshaping Work Group

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Opinion: An update from the Alaska Marine Highway System Reshaping Work Group

We have heard that reliable, predictable service is a fundamental need.

Why are Alaska’s salmon shrinking?

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Why are Alaska’s salmon shrinking?

Researchers have found an answer —and explored what it means.

Opinion: Republican or Trumper?

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Opinion: Republican or Trumper?

There is a difference.

Opinion: Open primaries would reflect Alaskans’ true independence

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Opinion: Open primaries would reflect Alaskans’ true independence

The price of allowing these partisan elections to continue is too high for Alaskans.

Opinion: Attacking systemic racism or adding systemic bureaucracy?

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Opinion: Attacking systemic racism or adding systemic bureaucracy?

How much change is warranted and what is the best way to accomplish it?

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. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. (NIAID-RML via AP)

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3 new cases reported for city, 86 for state

New restrictions about to go live.

Pride of Bristol Bay: Lessons from a Bristol Bay ‘salmon mama’

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Pride of Bristol Bay: Lessons from a Bristol Bay ‘salmon mama’

Salmon runs in in her blood.

Judy Cavanaugh stands with others at a rally against the Pebble Mine in front of Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s Juneau office on Tuesday, June 25, 2019. (Michae Penn / Juneau Empire File)

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Opinion: Why risk the crown jewel of Alaska’s fisheries?

It’s time to Veto Pebble Mine.

Police calls for Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020

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Police calls for Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020

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

Police calls for Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020

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Police calls for Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020

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

Opnion: The time to speak up for USPS is now

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Opnion: The time to speak up for USPS is now

I am hopeful that all of us will stand up to efforts to undermine the effectiveness the USPS.

Opinion: An outside the box schools solution

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Opinion: An outside the box schools solution

Let us look to what we already have.

Watch: Dunleavy dicusses CARES Act funding

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Watch: Dunleavy dicusses CARES Act funding

Watch live at 5 p.m.

A sign marks a polling place in Juneau for the Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020, primary election. (Ben Hohenstatt / Juneau Empire)

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Sullivan, Gross advance in US Senate primaries

Polls close at 8 p.m.