Anchorage Daily News

EDITORIAL

Our view: Beware the spin

This week's election results don't tell us much about where we'll be a year from now.

ALASKA NOTEBOOK

Southbound swan

Winged in cruelty by some lout with a bow, the Tern Lake trumpeter is now twice rescued, and it looks like she's going from the Alaska SeaLife Center to a rehab farm in Everett, Wash., where she'll winter with other swans.

EDITORIAL

Our view: Generosity

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JOHN HAVELOCK

Capable students should go to college free

We educate people because it is in the best interest of state and country; the benefit to the educated individual is incidental. Public education protects our society from economic decline and social degeneration. Our social structure slides into imbalance if there are not avenues for upward mobility.

EDITORIAL

Our view: School money

Federal stimulus money might help schools cope with this surprise funding cut.

COMPASS: JEFF PANTAGES

Gold is a good investment, right? Wrong

What is it about gold? Its price is soaring in the market and is now over $1,000 an ounce. There are more and more TV ads exhorting viewers to "Buy gold, now!" The higher it goes the louder the ads seem to get.

Powerful addiction

As someone who started smoking in the fourth grade (don't ask) and quit in the sixth grade, I am hesitant to judge those who remain locked in the self-destructive habit. I'm fortunate I stopped before I became seriously addicted.

EDITORIAL

Our view: No-bid preferences

Valid concerns about generous use of no-bid contracts for Alaska Native corporations need to be addressed.

EDITORIAL

Our view: Fix this

Pioneer Homes should get veterans their medications at veterans' prices.

COMPASS: BRADFORD H. TUCK

Connecting highways won't solve problem

The H2H project is based on a flawed premise. The problem is time-of-day traffic congestion in downtown and Midtown (including the U-Med area) Anchorage, largely related to commuter travel. Connecting the two highways does not address the problem and will not solve the problem.

EDITORIAL

Our view: Market? No, jungle

Goldman Sachs story illustrates the need for honest trading -- and rules to enforce it.

Read the complete Goldman Sachs series

ELISE PATKOTAK

Help save children from abuse, death

Once again the headlines tell a sad, sad story. American children are still killed by their parents or caregivers with disgusting regularity.

EDITORIAL

Our view: Weigh in

Have a stake in the city budget? Have your say again tonight.

EDITORIAL

Our view: Wood heat

Using a local fuel like wood in Southeast Alaska can help the local economy

MICHAEL CAREY

'Old welder' ran roughshod over Alaska

Bill Allen said what you expect from a man standing before a judge at sentencing. I made mistakes, I'm sorry, I know I will be punished. Remember the good I did.

CARL HIASSEN

Editors pose questions in Palin book manuscript

(Confidential response of Sarah Palin's book editor to the first draft of her coming memoir, "Going Rogue"):

COMPASS: DEIRDRE CRONIN

Our youths are faces of homelessness

Recent news coverage has thrust the issue of homelessness into the spotlight. Most of the attention has been focused on chronic inebriates and providing housing alternatives to makeshift homeless camps.

COMPASS: SUSAN H. BOMALASKI

Bus cuts hurt those who need service most

I respectfully disagree with the reductions in the People Mover service proposed in response to the municipal budget shortfall for 2010.

EDITORIAL

Our view: H2H

If H2H gets the green light, let's do more than just connect freeways.

EDITORIAL

Our view: Spill in Australia

Australia's experience is a cautionary tale for Alaska.

EDITORIAL

Who's up / Who's down

Winners and losers in last week's news