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Opinion: Rising freight costs continue to stifle Southeast economy
Adding trucking (via road) would place downward pressure on what many contend is a freight monopoly.
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Opinion: Program gives me hope that cycles of family violence can be broken
The program is a holistic family-focused, culturally based counseling/treatment model…
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Opinion: It’s an honor to now lead Alaska’s largest renewable resource
This October, I was provided the opportunity to serve as the Executive Director of the Alaska Permanent Fund…
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Opinion: New to Medicare? Please consider this
Please choose “original” Medicare and avoid the so-called “advantage” plans
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Opinion: The rising purple tide in the state Senate
A purple tide threatens to inundate the uncompromising wing of the state Republican Party.
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Opinion: Giving is for everyone – and the time to act is now
You don’t have to be rich, or prominent, or famous to care about your community…
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Patient treatment and outcomes should be at the center of psychiatric legislation
When House Bill 172 was signed into law on July 15, it set in motion a requirement that…
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Opinion: Election winners, losers and poor losers
Tshibaka and Palin misread Alaskans by thinking Trump’s endorsement all but guaranteed they’d win.
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Opinion: Aak’w Landing is Juneau’s most promising new project
Now, more than ever, our community needs the jobs, tax revenue, and stability…
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Opinion: Freedom in the classroom sets precedence for the future
We advocate for the adoption of legislation to protect students’ First Amendment rights…
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Opinion: Indigenous-led mariculture and traditional economies set an example for our future
November is Native American Heritage Month, and traditional Indigenous knowledge is essential to shaping a just transition for…
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Opinion: The power in attempting to memorialize the truth
Real heroes emerge from horrific events.
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Opinion: My Turn was right on the money
While I’ve never met Mr. Adler I share his concerns.
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Opinion: Mayor and assembly must rein in the assessor’s office
The unconscionable way the assessor’s office is treating commercial property owners must end.
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Opinion: Exciting new beginnings — they always come with sad farewells
Perhaps now is the right time to hand off our creation to the next generation.
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Opinion: Judging judges — balancing the judicial selection process
Alaska’s method of selecting judges can be and should be improved.
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Opinion: On Veterans Day, let’s thank GIs in Alaska for their dissent
The University of Alaska Southeast and Veterans For Peace chapter 100 will host the Waging Peace in Vietnam…
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Opinion: Referendum on the Assembly
People voted against a new City Hall as an expression of displeasure…
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Opinion: A vote for a constitutional convention is a vote for justice
In 1956, Alaska’s Founders expected that subsequent constitutional conventions would be necessary. Fairbanks delegate Warren Taylor said, “I…