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This picture shows the City and Borough of Juneau City Hall on Dec. 20, 2021. City officials are eyeing options for a new or renovated city facility with four potential options currently in the running. (Dana Zigmund/Juneau Empire)

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I don’t want to see a new City Hall until city services improve

After this year’s snow removal, they don’t deserve an extra rat catcher.

(Ben Hohenstatt / Juneau Empire File)

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Opinion: Election year coincides with increased support for AMHS

The Alaska Marine Highway System is feeling a lot more love these days.

(Ben Hohenstatt / Juneau Empire File)

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Opinion: Sanctions always hurt Alaskans

It’s understandable to stand up against a policy that has harmed Alaska’s seafood industry.

Copies of the Alaska State Constitution are available outside the Lt. Governor's office at the Alaska State Capitol. A Senate bill with bipartisan support is seeking to enhance civics education for Alaskan students. (Peter Segall / Juneau Empire file)

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Opinion: Preparing for Alaska’s constitutional convention referendum

The convention process grants the public three votes…

Demonstrators outside the White House on January 11, 2022, commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center. (Maria Oswalt / Unsplash)

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Opinion: It’s time to close Guantanamo Bay

Resolve detainees’ fates, close the prison and end the policy of indefinite detention.

“I Voted” stickers wait for Alaskan voters to pick them up during early in-person voting at Mendenhall Mall on Oct. 22, 2020. (Ben Hohenstatt / Juneau Empire File)

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Opimion: The good, the bad and the missing in Dunleavy’s elections bill

To summarize, the governor’s bill is a mixed bag.

Les Gara. (Courtesy photo / Les Gara)

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We need a governor who protects reproductive rights because he believes in them

That’s why I’ll be voting for Les Gara.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy delivers his State of the State address before a joint session of the Alaska State Legislature. (Peter Segall / Juneau Empire File)

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Opinion: Relying on public amnesia

“The future is now”

This photo shows the Alaska State Capitol. (Peter Segall / Juneau Empire File)

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Opinion: The Alaska Legislators needs to take action to protect every Alaskan

I advocate for strong legislation that will address PFAS contamination.

This picture shows the City and Borough of Juneau City Hall on Dec. 20, 2021. City officials are eyeing options for a new or renovated city facility with four potential options currently in the running. (Dana Zigmund / Juneau Empire)

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Opinion: Pride cometh before a new city hall

The time to ask questions and get answers is now.

Yay

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Opinion: We need to celebrate the good

Women of Distinction event returns to do exactly that.

(Ben Hohenstatt / Juneau Empire File)

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Opinion: Postal Service appears to be a weak link in elections

Perhaps mail-in elections are not a panacea after all.

Faith Myers stands at the doors of API. (Courtesy Photo)

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Opinion: ‘Do no harm’ should direct mental health legislation

Without added patient rights these bills should not pass.

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Opinion: Guard our fund — pass a constitutional PFD now

The time to act on the dividend formula is now.

This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, yellow, emerging from the surface of cells, blue/pink, cultured in the lab. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. Alberta's oilsands are operating with critical staff only as the highly contagious Omicron variant sweeps the country. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, NIAID-RML

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Opinion.: Reflections on the Juneau protest convoy

Although not perfect, vaccines have helped save countless lives.

masks

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Opinion: People refusing to mask, get vaccinated are complicit in deaths

Mandates would not be necessary if people acted responsibility.

Teaser

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Opinion: What they’re saying about schools

Government leaders again are announcing their good intentions for public schools.

Gavel (Courtesy photo)

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Opinion: The opportunity of Alaska’s open primary

How voters in Alaska, and elsewhere, retook control of primary elections from political parties.

Alexander B. Dolitsky

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Opinion: Looking back and forward on US-Russian relations

Relations have been short and somewhat intense.

(Peter Segall / Juneau Empire File)

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I’m against House Bill 52. Here’s why

HB 52 is anti-commercial fishing, anti-community poorly thought-out bill.