Opinion
Why wasn’t Juneau a WWII refuge for the Aleuts?
Why weren’t the people sent to Juneau, asked Carl Stepetin, following a ceremony at Funter Bay honoring the…
Opinion
REAL ID concerns wildly exaggerated
In the waning hours of the 30th Legislature, House Bill 16 was passed allowing Alaska’s participation in the…
Opinion
Cutting public health nursing jeopardizes all Alaskans
In the smallest and most remote communities across Alaska, public health nurses (PHNs) serve in incredibly significant roles:…
Opinion
Listening to elected officials
A most interesting “Talk of Alaska” was recently broadcast on KTOO Public Radio. U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska,…
Opinion
Revenue needed to keep Alaska competitive
As a lifelong Alaskan, mother of two small children, small business owner and as someone whose day job…
Opinion
Pebble Mine should be stopped in its tracks
Alaska Seafood is a brand. The people of Alaska own the brand and the state government protects the…
Opinion
AJ Mine proposal premature, needlessly divisive
The recent proposal by a small group of mining advocates to largely eliminate Juneau’s existing mine review ordinance…
Opinion
Raiding energy industry to solve budget crisis will create more problems
Alaska is in a budget crisis. The “gravest fiscal crisis in state history,” according to Gov. Bill Walker.…
Opinion
Tolerance is becoming intolerable
The state Legislature proved that, despite the ridiculous and unjustified censure of David Eastman, they had not quite…
Opinion
A state income tax would not help
There is no nonviolent way more certain to destroy Alaska society and culture than an income tax concurrent…
Opinion
It’s time for solutions, not politics
For the last four months, the new Majority Coalition in the Alaska House of Representatives have worked on…
Opinion
Truth, fiction and the certainty in between
“These are clothes that absolutely refuse to flatter you,” David Sedaris wrote in the New Yorker last year.…
Opinion
A right and a wrong way to reform tax policy
No matter who you are or what you do, tax laws affect your life every day. And no…
Opinion
If at first you don’t succeed …
This is the first in a series of monthly columns about STEM in Juneau: what it is, why…
Opinion
Time to choose between taxes and giveaways
I’m writing to support and second the comments on Wedneday’s editorial page by Rich Seifert, a longtime friend…
Opinion
The Alaska Senate’s ‘Big Lie’
Alaska’s oil companies display the situational ethics of a band of rich, randy frat boys with pockets full…
Opinion
No representation without taxation
As of Mother’s Day, we now know that our Senate in Alaska has voted down an income tax…
Opinion
A new approach to oil taxation
This is Part 1 of 2. See Part 2 in Wednesday’s newspaper. Our oil severance tax system is…
Opinion
Fight injustice in the United States
People of all walks of life go through all possible measurements and even risk their lives to come…
Opinion
Healthy forests grow opportunity for Alaska
Water. The roar of a river has many of us thinking of fishing, rafting and adventure; icebergs calving…