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NATIONAL COLUMNISTS

David Brooks: Good government requires self-restraint

Columnist David Brooks finds too many people in our current government lack the essential quality of self-restraint.

COMPASS: GUEST COLUMNISTS

Compass: North-South runway unnecessary blow to Coastal Trail

Compass writer Bill Sherwonit argues that a new North-South airport runway is an unnecessary slash across the Coastal Trail and surrounding forest.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Letter: Clean water invites fish back

Engine oils, fuels, antifreeze, drugs, and hormones are highly toxic to fish. It is common for boaters to use bilge pumps to constantly pump filthy bilge water from their leaky boats into our rivers, and to urinate into or near rivers.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Letter: America can regain leadership position in cutting emissions

In the May 11 ADN, I read how our atmosphere has exceeded 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide, 100 parts higher than any time since the first humans. Wastefully dumping carbon pollution has created an unnatural imbalance in our atmosphere, fueling the crazy weather we see increasing all around...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Letter: Increased Benghazi funding?

So President Obama wants to fix Benghazi by increased funding for security. He and others blame the stingy Republicans. Something immediately leaps to mind though. Security in Benghazi had deteriorated so badly the British had left there that June 17. If — and I say if — we had limited...
NATIONAL COLUMNISTS

Charles Krauthammer: Administration fails to come clean on Benghazi

Columnist Charlies Krauthammer says Obama chooses duck-and-cover politics over the truth about Benghazi.
OPINION COLUMNS

Steve Haycox: We trash Uncle Sam, but take his money

Columnist Steve Haycox points out that despite the merry sport of fed-bashing, Alaska would be in rough shape without Uncle Sam's steady contribution.
NATIONAL COLUMNISTS

Pakistan's fragile democracy shows new strength

The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Thursday, May 16:
NATIONAL COLUMNISTS

Mary Sanchez: Responsibility for Asian sweatshop safety lies with us, too

Another apparel factory has collapsed in a poor Asian country, killing three workers, and I fear I'm partly to blame.
NATIONAL COLUMNISTS

Excitement or extortion? A guide to gifting

It's random present-giving season or, as Chaucer put it, "'Tis spring, when small birds make melodies and invitations to sendeth gifties doth impregnate already swollen mailboxes."