ALASKA'S NEWSPAPER

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COMPASS: DONNA FLEURY

Don't lose true meaning of Memorial Day

Today is Memorial Day. To the families of Americans lost in our nation's wars, every day is Memorial Day. To the family of Marine Cpl. Gregory M. W. Fleury, every day is Memorial Day.

Memorial Day 2012: Roll call

While Americans honor all nation's fallen soldiers of all wars today, here we present a roll call of Alaskans or Alaska-based troops lost in the two most recent wars, Iraq and Afghanistan, since 2003.

Who's up / Who's down

Winners and losers in last week's news

COMPASS: JOHN CLOE

Remember Alaska's WWII contributions

June 3 and 4 will mark the 70th anniversary of the Japanese aircraft carrier-based bombing of Dutch Harbor in the eastern Aleutians during which 76 Americans died and three were taken prisoner. The Alaska Veterans Memorial Museum in the Post Office Mall on Fourth Avenue is planning a special exhibit to commemorate Dutch Harbor and the ensuing Aleutian Campaign, the only World War II campaign fought on North American soil.

EPA answering mayday to protect fish

This time of year I tend to get nostalgic about commercial fishing. I miss the nocturnal calm of wheel watch and still feel lucky to be alive when recalling some of the more harrowing moments.

COMPASS: MICHAEL KOCHER

Alienating Alaskans could fracture GOP

I'm sure the news that Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell hosted Republican Party Chairman-elect Russ Millette at his home recently was a shock to Democrats statewide. Why? Because Mead Treadwell understands what the Republican Party needs to continue its success in this state, to continue to add voters to its rolls and to keep the public from perceiving the party as fractured.

PAUL JENKINS

EPA jumped gun with its Pebble mining project report

It is bothersome when a supposedly neutral federal agency jumps the gun to help anti-development forces trying to derail a project even before it can be defined.

MICHAEL CAREY

On the home front

The North Carolina writer Reynolds Price said "The only thing more destructive than a tornado is a family." Price's words returned me Thursday as Schaeffer Cox's mother-in-law testified during the militia trial at the federal courthouse in Anchorage.

JOHN HAVELOCK

Pebble answers remain elusive

Are we going to decide whether the Pebble mine is developed based on competing advertisements? Should the project be stopped because a report says it poses serious risks to the environment? Or maybe we will decide it's a "go" since it will surely provide many Alaska jobs.

COMPASS: CHRIS PALLISTER, JOHN KENNISH and CAREY BAGDASSARIAN

Toxic tsunami debris will flood Alaska shores

The scope of the environmental disaster about to befoul Alaska's coast is shocking.

EDITORIAL

Our view: Give blood

To give blood is to give life. More information and a schedule of blood drives is available at www.bloodbankofalaska.org. For more information and to make an appointment, you can call 222-5630.

COMPASS: KARIN WANAMAKER

Comeau fund helps neediest students

As the school year comes to an end many of us reflect upon the swift passage of time in our children's lives and hope that we are doing the very best to ensure a positive, enriching, learning environment for our children.

EDITORIAL

Our view: Bristol Bay treasure

EPA report serves its purpose, to lay out the stakes in Bristol Bay mining decisions.

ELISE PATKOTAK

Volunteers make world a little nicer

Given the news we read on a daily basis, one could come to the reasonable conclusion that, as my mother would have so succinctly put it, we are going to "H E Double hockey sticks" in a hand basket and there is little to do but await the wrath of whatever deity in which you believe.

COMPASS: HAYDEN NEVILL

Transgender Alaskans' privacy imperiled

A recent court order may not have attracted much media attention, but it is tremendously important to a few of us Alaskans. The order deals with the Department of Motor Vehicles' restrictions on changing the gender markers on driver's licenses for transgender Alaskans.

Michael Carey: Militia prosecution portrays an exalted ego of the fringe right

Former Daily News editorial page editor Michael Carey has been attending the trial of the Alaska Militiamen, and describes the courtroom scene and the prosecution witnesses' accounts of Schaeffer Cox, which tell of a man long on ego and short on perspective.

COMPASS: TERRY GARDINER

Health care refunds can bolster business

If you're a hardworking small-business owner in Alaska who provides health benefits to your employees, there's a chance your insurance carrier owes you money. And if it does, you can start checking the mailbox for a refund somewhere in the neighborhood of $517.

Who's up / Who's down

Winners and losers in last week's news

COMPASS: KATIE TEPAS

Alaska making a difference in ending cycle of violence

As columnist Shannyn Moore noted (ADN, May 6), ending the epidemic of domestic violence and sexual assault will take more than a march. I could not agree more.

SHANNYN MOORE

Direct outrage to cleaning up water, air

For a year I've been covering "War on Women" stories. Between Kansas letting pharmacists decide if they want to fill prescriptions, a Mississippi lawmaker saying coat-hanger abortions were part of a value system and Arizona blocking funding for contraceptives for poor women, I wondered what the end goal was.

PAUL JENKINS

Why is North Dakota No. 1? Fair oil taxes

It is hard to know whether to laugh at or cry for Alaska, where calculated, myopic oil tax policies and crass political greed are combining to reduce the state to the nation's third-largest oil producer, behind Texas and North Dakota. Third-largest. Behind North Dakota, for crying out loud -- and dropping.

Ross Douthat: Academia's diversity is only skin-deep

New York Times columnist Ross Douthat finds Elizabeth Warren's old claim of Indian heritage an embarrassment for her and the world of academia that encouraged it.

Maureen Dowd: Catholic bishops wage the wrong war

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd argues that the battle over contraception isn't an attack by the American president on the Catholic Church, but an attack by Catholic bishops on American women.

Paul Krugman: JP Morgan up to old tricks, and Mitt Romney is clueless

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman says that JP Morgan's loss wasn't an aberration but the same game that took us to recession in 2008 - and Mitt Romney has no clue why that's bad for America.

EDITORIAL

Cartoons of the day

Flip through daily editorial cartoons from newspapers across the country. Check back throughout the week as more are added.

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Good, bad and ugly

Readers post their photos of the good, bad and ugly of Anchorage.

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AK Voices

Intelligent discussion about Alaska issues from informed commentators.

Juneau's Big Men should be scrutinized

Who has economic opportunity, and who doesn't?

Mining Pebble would fail Hammond's criteria

Aging takes guts in this political climate

Our View: South Fork reaction

Liberals have no monopoly on compassion

Draft plan for NPR-A offers alternate way to find balance

Who's up / Who's down

Look at spending for measure of equality

Oil tax logic continues to elude Democrats

Citizens on trial

Memories of our moms sharpen over time

Fight over oil taxes is far from over

Our view: Don't text and drive

Barriers to natural gas pipeline are falling

Our view: Election inquiry

World's toughest job is underappreciated

Fuji Gifts offered a personal touch

Children deserve a safe 'forever home'

Lawmakers, governor team up in crime fight

Our view: Right call on election

Hijackers of Alaska GOP did Begich a huge favor

We need much more than Parnell slogan

Speak out against abuse and save a child

Cinco de Mayo salutes Mexican determination

10 things to consider about oil taxation

Parnell's game board choices display his misjudgment

Our View: EPA is doing its job

Inequality's roots deep in US history

Our view: Thinking too small?

Election fiasco wasn't an accident

Let court, not board, handle redistricting

Our View: Yes, there's still a war

Alaska veterinarians do disservice to dogs, villages

Who's up / Who's down

Support effort to provide more than a mat

City grading itself in integrity of election

Parnell was unprepared to sell oil-tax reform bill

Americans no longer focus on the welfare of all



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