Don Rearden

For too long, your focus has been in the wrong direction, and you’ve been trying to impress the wrong people.

We need a governor who will put the focus of Alaska’s true potential on changing the way we think about resources and development.

I feared and envisioned Alaska struggling horribly if a pandemic hit, but I didn’t ever expect we would turn our backs upon the people trying to save us.

We have prioritized business and leisure over our grandparents and neighbors.

Like cancer, this virus doesn’t care how good you look or who you plan to vote for in the fall.

We’re seeing through the thinly crafted plot to line the pockets of a few characters at the expense of the rest of us in this story.

OPINION: Why can't we start a new corporation, take Alaska’s oil and sell it, and use the proceeds to fund government?

OPINION: President Obama deserves a guide who will help him see the real Alaska, the one struggling with climate change, food security, poverty, suicide and violence. Plus, he'll need someone to show him how to use a honey bucket.

OPINION: How can UAA slash our school’s only child care service at the same time it's planning to build the world’s most kick-ass hockey locker room?

OPINION: UAA administration still hasn't given any good reasons for evicting the Tanaina Child Development Center.

OPINION: Kicking Tanaina off campus and forcing it to "fend for itself" is not good for the child-care center or for UAA students and faculty.

OPINION: After decades performing at the highest levels of its craft and attracting a steady stream of national accolades, Alaska Quarterly Review should not be considered as a possible cut in UAA's 2014 Prioritization Process.

OPINION: Together, as men and women, we can collectively hope the mothers of the oil company executives are as interested in the future of Alaska's children as the fine “women legislators” are.

OPINION: This ad-heavy campaign season fueled by super PACs should be a clue that Alaska is missing out on a potential revenue source that could rival oil in the long run.

OPINION: Losing Alaska's first languages would be more than a loss of culture.