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Commentary: Reynolds was an unstoppable, unsinkable working mom
Debbie Reynolds sang in the rain. She sang with her broken foot soaking in a bucket of ice.…
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Is America better off today than it was before Obama took office?
A little over eight years ago, a young and charismatic man was rallying a broad coalition of voters…
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Is America better off today than it was before President Barack Obama took office? No: Obama has been a disaster
Shortly after being sworn into office in January 2009, President Barack Obama, along with Democrats in Congress, spent…
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Alaska Editorial: Possible Russian hacking a serious concern
The following editorial first appeared in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner: The consensus of U.S. intelligence services that the…
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My Turn: Why the natural gas project keeps eluding us, year after year
Rex Tillerson, CEO of Exxon, was right when he said that Alaska sometimes is its own worst enemy…
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Alaska Editorial: Bans on oil and gas leasing robs Alaska of potential jobs, revenue
The following editorial first appeared in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner: The outrage from Alaska’s political leaders and industry…
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Opinion: Tweeting through the apocalypse: Trump’s drive-by foreign policy
We must as a nation be more unpredictable,” Donald Trump said during the presidential campaign. “We have to…
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Opinion: Trump, ‘Merry Christmas’ and a Happy New Year
Having been born in December in the heart of the Great Depression (which, of course, had no heart),…
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Outside Editorial: Amazon and the twilight of the grocery line
The following editorial first appeared in the Chicago Tribune: Americans spend – waste – a year or two…
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Outside Editorial: A 2016 dictionary of dysfunction
The following editorial first appeared in The Baltimore Sun: A is for alt-right, a sanitized, newspeak name for…
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Opinion: Reagan would be mortified by Trump’s cavalier attitude toward nuclear weapons
Ever notice President Obama’s hair and how gray it’s gotten over the last eight years? It probably has…
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My Turn: University of Alaska is working to build a culture of education in Alaska
The University of Alaska is facing continued budgetary and market pressures that compel us to change how we…
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My Turn: From the depths we learn how wonderful life is
“This isn’t about Christmas,” James Sullivan says, as his character George Bailey considers throwing himself off a bridge…
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Letter: Thanks for recognizing UAS’s role in teacher education
As Chancellor at the University of Alaska Southeast, I’d like to thank the citizens of Juneau and individuals…
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Opinion: Holiday greetings still matter in our disconnected digital age
In 1999, I published a study regarding older and younger adults’ reactions to holiday cards. In the olden…
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Opinion: The bigots at the gate
Across the nation we are witnessing a rise in white nationalism: At a gathering in a Washington, D.C.,…
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Outside Editorial: Cool heads prevailing: Turkey, Russia stay the course after assassination
The following editorial first appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The assassination Monday of Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov in…
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My Turn: After a long wait, breakthrough in the Tongass
After decades of wrangling over the future of timber on the Tongass National Forest, a group of people…
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Alaska Editorial: Invocations and individual rights
The following editorial first appeared in the Peninsula Clarion: In the Town of Greece, New York v. Galloway,…
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Opinion: Going after fake news
The “fake news” phenomenon was on vivid display in social media during the bitter 2016 presidential campaign. A…