Opinion
Empire Editorial: New resolve for 2018
Happy New Year, Juneau. You may be working on your 2018 resolutions, and we are, too. We thought…
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Optimism for our state in 2018
As Alaskans, there’s no doubt that we face significant challenges, including high crime rates, especially domestic violence and…
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What’s really at stake in cruise line lawsuit
Let’s talk about the lawsuit between Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) and the City and Borough of Juneau…
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Don’t go back to clear-cutting the Tongass
We know what a national treasure the Tongass is because we live and work here. The Tongass is…
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Alaska has a corruption problem
Caution: If, over the next month, you are ask to sign the anti-corruption petition in circulation, it’s no…
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Protect the staff at the Alaska Psychiatric Institute
In the last 50 years there has not been a comprehensive, fair conversation about the ability of state-run…
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Goodbye love letter to Juneau
On Jan. 1, 2018, I fly out of Juneau without having a return ticket. That had never happened…
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Wishful speculations about tax cuts isn’t real news
The ink was barely dry on the GOP tax bill when a New York Post headline declared it’s…
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The New JACC is a wonderful inevitability
Juneau has a rich artistic and cultural history, dating back millennia for indigenous peoples and to the founding…
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The most read opinion pieces of 2017
There was no shortage of spirited debate in the Empire’s opinion section this year. With a tumultuous political…
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Is Juneau digging a deeper hole in cruise line lawsuit?
In December, City and Borough of Juneau (CBJ) staff asked the CBJ Assembly to appropriate an additional $250,000…
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Finding the good as 2017 ends
The inspiration for this column comes from two places. One is that it’s the end of year and…
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The paradoxial necessity of opposition
If it wasn’t the week before Christmas, I’d probably be lodging my complaint with the tax bill Congress…
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The Empire Editorial Board’s Christmas List
Dear Santa, We have been good this year (well, most of us) and think we are deserving of…
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Make Alaska’s public schools great for all students
In his Dec. 13 Juneau Empire “My Turn,” Jeremy Price of the Koch brothers-funded Americans for Prosperity offered…
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Divest the Permanent Fund
Organizations around the world are divesting from fossil fuels, and a lot of the talk is about the…
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The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
This holiday season, Alaskans can have a renewed sense of hope for good jobs, larger paychecks, stronger growth,…
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Safer, Stronger, Smarter: Building the future for Alaska
I believe in Alaska. Our state and our people have set the course for a good, secure future.…
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Change in hydraulic fracking procedure
When southern Kenai Peninsula residents heard BlueCrest’s plans for the Cosmopolitan project just north of Anchor Point, it…
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More stream protection is unnecessary
Protecting salmon habitat is a proud accomplishment of many industries in Alaska, including the timber industry, since long…