Opinion
Juneau sustainability — the city we need, the city we want
Twenty-five years ago, scientists, interest groups and committed citizens gathered at the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio…
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Stubbornness risks Alaskan’s livelihoods
The recent Legislative session and the current “not so special” session has produced thoughtful debate highlighting the differences…
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‘Do-nothing’ Senate Majority needs to be replaced
We find it absolutely appalling that the Alaska Senate Majority has taken the constitutionally mandated budget process so…
Opinion
A Memorial Day observance: The destruction that is war
Memorial Day began as a consecration of war dead following our Civil War, by recently freed people honoring…
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Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend: The world watches anxiously
Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend and the central idea that minerals are a shared inheritance have inspired numerous social…
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Health care bill threatens Alaskans
Sometimes legislation in Congress has unintended consequences. This is one of those times. The American Health Care Act…
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Alaska Legislature needs to adopt broad-based and balanced approach
We recognize and appreciate the hard work of the Legislature in reviewing a wide range of proposals to…
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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…
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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:…
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Listening to elected officials
A most interesting “Talk of Alaska” was recently broadcast on KTOO Public Radio. U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska,…
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Revenue needed to keep Alaska competitive
As a lifelong Alaskan, mother of two small children, small business owner and as someone whose day job…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…