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Police calls for Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019

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Police calls for Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019

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

Centennial Hall, left and the Juneau Arts & Culture Center, center, on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

Opinion

Opinion: The new JACC is a sound investment

Here’s the facts.

The Juneau Arts & Culture Center on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

Opinion

Opinion: City and JACC should go back to the drawing board

No, no and no.

Why I love September

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Why I love September

It’s nice to get our city back, so to speak.

Writers’ Weir: In Motion on the Equinox

Neighbors

Writers’ Weir: In Motion on the Equinox

A reader-submitted poem.

Fritz Creek area resident Barrett Fletcher gives the invocation before a Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting as a representative of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster at Homer City Hall in Homer, Alaska, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2019. A pastor wearing a spaghetti strainer on his head delivered the opening invocation at the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting Tuesday. The invocation by the pastor of the Homer congregation of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is the second non-traditional invocation before the assembly since a court ruling. (Megan Pacer/Homer News via AP)

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Pastafarian pastor leads prayer at Alaska government meeting

He ended the prayer with: “Ramen.”

The Juneau Arts & Culture Center on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

Letters to the Editor

Opinion: Do you trust your Assembly?

I am voting against all three initiatives.

The Juneau Arts & Culture Center on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

Letters to the Editor

Opinion: We don’t need a new and expensive performing arts center

Let’s be happy with the JACC we have.

In this file photo from Sept. 14, 2017, a large still is a centerpiece in the tasting room at the Amalga Distillery at Franklin and Second Streets in downtown Juneau. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire File)

Opinion

Opinion: Proposed restrictions on tasting rooms make no sense

Alaska’s Alcoholic Beverage Control Board seems rather annoyed by the success of brewery and distillery tasting rooms in…

Opinion: Let’s tackle this climate emergency

Opinion

Opinion: Let’s tackle this climate emergency

Our planet is changing fast.

The hapless bee comes to a lupine inflorescence where the spider was waiting. (Bob Armstrong | For the Juneau Empire)

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Crab spiders are voracious little predator

Here’s where to find them in Juneau.

The “New Office Building” in the Treadwell Mine Historical Park awaits its ribbon cutting. The building was recently renovated by the Treadwell Historic Preservation and Restoration Society, Inc. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

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New-look mining building gets a ribbon cutting

Celebration of rehabbed structure set for Sunday.

Juneau School Board candidates Deedie Sorensen, left, Martin Stepetin, Sr., Bonny Jensen and Emil Mackey, right, respond to questions during a candidate forum at KTOO on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. The event was sponsored by the Juneau League of Women Voters. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

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Video: Watch the municipal candidate forum live here

Learn more about the candidates running for local office.

The Juneau Arts & Culture Center on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

Letters to the Editor

Opinion: Don’t JACC up our taxes

Vote no on Prop 3.

Tennis teams host Back to School tourney

Sports

Tennis teams host Back to School tourney

Here’s the results.

Police calls for Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019

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Police calls for Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019

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

Opinion: Emergency preparedness is harder than it sounds; that’s why we practice

Opinion

Opinion: Emergency preparedness is harder than it sounds; that’s why we practice

You can never be really ready.

Opinion: Eddie Money helped melt Alaska-Russia ‘Ice Curtain’

Letters to the Editor

Opinion: Eddie Money helped melt Alaska-Russia ‘Ice Curtain’

His little known role in helping Alaska and Soviet “citizen diplomats” end the Cold War.

In this July 21, 2015 photo, the ferry Columbia approaches the Auke Bay terminal in Juneau. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire File)

Opinion

Opinion: Government by and for some of the people

The irony that Dunleavy’s ferry cuts expose.

Opinion: The future of the Arctic has immense potential

Opinion

Opinion: The future of the Arctic has immense potential

The opportunity for Arctic residents is immense.