Letters to the Editor

Letter: Time and tide

Although I got run off a couple of times by the owner's security, I used to love to sit on the rocks with a beer at the inlet and watch the tides. Twice a day, the tides go out. A 40-ounce ice beer or fortified lager did me OK when the water was out.

Although a boat might be riding low in the water, in all the times I was there, I never saw anybody throw anybody overboard. I never saw anybody stop paddling, get out and leave the state. I never saw anybody take half of anybody's PFD.
Alaska's such a big place. Alaska's such a beautiful place. We, as Alaskans rolling with the economy's punches — we, as Americans, have deep within us fairer measures meting out pain proportionately than these state politicians have employed these last years in our names.

The tides go out twice a day. On Election Day, let a new, incoming tide take their places.
— Louis A. Breuer
Willow

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