Elise Patkotak
Elise Patkotak: In both scandals and response, Obama disappoints
Columnist Elise Patkotak says the recent flurry of scandals and the president's detached response disappoints those who put faith in him.
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Elise Patkotak: Hawaii is good medicine in small doses
Columnist Elise Patkotak looks forward to four days in Hawaii -- but anything more is too much of paradise warm.
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Elise Patkotak: Love those old Westerns, but gun reality is far different
Columnist Elise Patkotak says it's time for the country to leave the well-armed Western myth behind -- not try to resurrect was likely never was.
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Elise Patkotak: Most folks are helping, not hurting our world
Sometimes our world is filled with so much ugliness and pain that it's hard to remember that the overwhelming majority of people are good. Most go about their daily lives, whether in America, Gabon, Iraq or China, trying to do their best to get through the day and get back to their families at night...
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Elise Patkotak: Legalize drugs, but not the crimes linked to them
Columnist Elise Patkotak argues for legalizing drugs.
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Elise Patkotak: Halt epidemic of horror against women
In the course of the past two weeks a woman was beaten to death in front of her two young children and a homeless teenager was allegedly repeatedly raped in Eagle River. A study was released in that same period showing (surprise! surprise!) that Alaska women still earn learn than men for doing ...
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Elise Patkotak: Alaskans understand the food chain
What I love about Alaskans is that they can be thoroughly devoted hunters who also appreciate the grandeur of our wildlife.
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Patkotak: Why have people become so blind to compromise?
Ah compromise. When did you become such a dirty word? Without you, there would be no America. Our Founding Fathers all had to give a little to get a little as they created the world's first experiment in democracy.
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Elise Patkotak: Legislature worries about 'outlaw' feds while ignoring state needs
Our legislators clearly feel that the Civil War really didn't solve the issue of federal versus state law.
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Elise Patkotak: Give members of Congress their due
Columnist Elise Patkotak wonders why we let members of Congress fail to earn their generous pay and benefits.
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Elise Patkotak: State money shouldn't pay for private educations
Columnist Elise Patkotak says school voucher supporters cherry-pick the Constitution to suit their agenda.
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