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OPINION: Community safety not just another priority for Juneau — it’s the priority
With so many issues facing our community, it’s easy to lose sight of the one that matters the…
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LETTER: Juneau’s history is worth maintaining
After unanimous opposition at Assembly meetings, in editorials and emails, the Juneau Assembly voted to disappear the top…
Opinion
LETTER: Alaska psychiatric patients face longstanding mistreatment
Psychiatric patients at the state-run Alaska Psychiatric Institute are facing mistreatment because the only ones that help patients…
Opinion
OPINION: Trumpism will end like McCarthyism
Fear built it. Corruption feeds it. Lawlessness will bury it
Letters to the Editor
LETTER: Alaska voters deserve an honest Senate ballot
Anyone who’s spent even a little time around Alaska politics knows a Senate race won’t be polite or…
Opinion
OPINION: Trump’s populist promise and the billionaire takeover of America
The greatest political bait-and-switch in modern American history was not a foreign conspiracy or a stolen election, but…
Opinion
MY TURN: Juneau budget cuts services as bureaucracy keeps growing
Last Juneau Assembly meeting was another circus to distract the citizens from looking at the real issue —…
Opinion
OPINION: Congress’s silence is Trump’s tax shield
The “1776 Fund” may prove to be one of the most successful acts of political misdirection in modern…
Opinion
MY TURN: Juneau Assembly elves shelve local history
Recent actions by the Juneau Assembly reflect a dispiriting trend among our elected officials. Two items are especially…
Letters to the Editor
LETTER: Crypto investments questioned
Van Abbott’s description (Empire 6 June) of Nick Begich III as Trump’s crypto salesman rings true. In fact,…
Letters to the Editor
LETTER: Business revenues going up in smoke
Our governor should take a hard look at the unintended consequences of massive new taxes on vapor products…
Opinion
OPINION: Wheels of Fortune just spin better for some people
Rest easy, my column isn’t about politics this week. It’s not that I have sworn off political opinions…
Opinion
OPINION: Is Juneau buying solutions — or just bigger social service budgets?
Capital City Fire and Rescue (CCFR) released its May 2026 response statistics earlier this week. During the month…
Opinion
I Went to the Woods: The log
Conflict drives plot and develops character so protagonists need antagonists and grow and to make the story interesting.
Letters to the Editor
LETTER: Transparency needed on fossil fuel subsidies
The world as we know it today was built on the back of burning fossil fuels. Unfortunately this…
Opinion
OPINION: The trillion-dollar presidency
How Trump turned war, debt, and chaos into America’s most expensive policy
Letters to the Editor
LETTER: Wealth inequality reaching crisis levels
Wealth inequality in the United States has reached levels that should concern every American. While millions of working…
Opinion
OPINION: Trump’s crypto salesman
Why Nick Begich is spending political capital on Trump’s speculative scheme instead of Alaska’s problems
Opinion
OPINION: Goldbelt’s vision – A future that works for all of Juneau
Goldbelt wants to help build a future where families choose to stay in Juneau
