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

Opinion: Vote ‘no’ on Propositions 1-3

I recommend a “no” vote.

Sep 19, 2019
Opinion

Opinion: New JACC is a perfect storm of opportunity

Vote yes.

Sep 19, 2019
Opinion

Alaska’s changes are many, and so fast

Thermometers across the state are hitting record highs.

Sep 19, 2019
News Alaska Outdoors

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

No, no and no.

Sep 19, 2019
Opinion

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

Opinion: The new JACC is a sound investment

Here’s the facts.

Sep 19, 2019
Opinion

Police calls for Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019

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Sep 19, 2019
News Crime

Why I love September

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

Sep 19, 2019
News Alaska Outdoors

Capital City Weekly

Writers’ Weir: In Motion on the Equinox

A reader-submitted poem.

Sep 19, 2019
Neighbors Art Capital City Weekly

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)

Pastafarian pastor leads prayer at Alaska government meeting

He ended the prayer with: “Ramen.”

Sep 18, 2019
News State & Legislature

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)

New-look mining building gets a ribbon cutting

Celebration of rehabbed structure set for Sunday.

Sep 18, 2019
News Local history Local News

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

Video

Crab spiders are voracious little predator

Here’s where to find them in Juneau.

Sep 18, 2019
News Alaska Outdoors

Video

Opinion: Do you trust your Assembly?

I am voting against all three initiatives.

Sep 18, 2019
Letters to the Editor

Opinion: Let’s tackle this climate emergency

Our planet is changing fast.

Sep 18, 2019
Opinion

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: 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 the state.

Sep 18, 2019
Opinion

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

Let’s be happy with the JACC we have.

Sep 18, 2019
Letters to the Editor

Opinion: Don’t JACC up our taxes

Vote no on Prop 3.

Sep 17, 2019
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.

Sep 17, 2019
Letters to the Editor

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

You can never be really ready.

Sep 17, 2019
Opinion

Police calls for Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019

Sep 17, 2019
News Crime

Tennis teams host Back to School tourney

Here’s the results.

Sep 17, 2019
Sports