Edward Itta

OPINION: Balancing interests when it comes to development means recognizing multiple uses. Like any other community, we Iñupiat don’t speak with one voice, but our voices matter, and our perspective is fundamentally different from other parties. We aren’t just staking a claim in the Arctic. We’re part of it, and we always will be.

OPINION: The Center for Biological Diversity could help to bring opposing viewpoints together in search of a solution that's best for all concerned. Instead they wait until the hard work is done, then they throw a wrench in the works.

If reporters from outside Alaska are going to get the story of its Native people right, they must work to understand traditional cultures as living experience, not noble savagery frozen in time.

What may appear to be "a change of heart" is more likely the result of a change in circumstances. Am I ready to say "full steam ahead" on offshore development? Absolutely not.

Dan Fagan seems to be mad at everyone for failing to lavish incentives on the oil industry ("Australia's gas-deal gain is Alaska's loss," Sept. 12).