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Opinions
The real hoax about the border crisis
Trump’s manufactured crisis has now led to very real tragedy.
Letter: Litter an unfortunate sign of the times
Being a habitual trash-recovery individual, I have been offered the luxury of assessing the form and content of the trash tossed along our byways.
Letter: Leaders silent too long on caging kids
Americans are throwing children into cages! This is a shameful new manifestation of government cruelty that violates all sense of human decency.
Charles Krauthammer, a diagnostician of our public discontents
A thinker like no other, Charles drew on reserves of energy and willpower to overcome a multitude of daily challenges.
Alaska schools have upside-down twins in New Zealand. Here’s what they can teach us.
A librarian from Airport Heights Elementary won a Fulbright Scholarship to study New Zealand schools that are remarkably like our own.
Bad bear advice might be worse than no advice at all
Contrary to John Schandelmeier’s unsourced opinion, bear spray works quite well in situations where you are threatened by a bear at close range, which is the very essence of a bear attack.
The century-old legacy of Belleau Wood is still worth fighting for
What possible relevance can a battle fought a continent away and 100 years ago have for America and Alaska today? Quite a bit, as it turns out.
America needs a better border solution
The vital work of securing our borders can, and must, be accomplished without systematically tearing apart families. It is pointless to defend our borders if we give up on the values they are supposed to protect.
Democrats still have no message on the economy or jobs
Why would voters make the radical departure from a good and growing Republican economy to a Democratic Party whose only purpose is to "resist" the president?
Letter: City shouldn’t raise pot taxes
Nothing ruins a good buzz more than knowing the city is going to get more money it doesn’t deserve.
Letter: Housing homeless at Centennial Park would cause more problems
We already have a problem with bears that have become habituated to unprotected garbage left by careless neighbors and paying Centennial Park campers.
Domino’s Pizza fixing potholes is an ominous sign
While it's good of companies to do this, inequality itself is an ominous trend for society.
Letter: Thanks from Seldovia for a kind gesture
While spending time with the man who returned my mother's locket, I realized what a wonderful job his mother and father had done rearing him to care about resolving something so small to make another person so happy.
Equal justice under law includes a fair judiciary
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously stated, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” This applies to the federal courts, too.
ER doctors: We need to protect patients from surprise medical bills
There is absolutely no evidence that the 80th percentile rule raises costs. Alaska’s patients and families literally cannot afford to fall for this nonsense.
How a simple state regulation added $85 million each year to Alaska health care costs
The 80th percentile rule accounted for up to 25 percent of Alaska health care cost increases since it went into effect in 2004, a new study finds.
Hypocrisy abounds in attacks on Stand for Salmon initiative
Those who oppose the initiative conveniently ignore the fact that their resource development allies are just as Outside-based as the activists they criticize on the other side.
Letter: A legal conundrum
A president determined to appoint judges who strictly interpret the Constitution according to original intent also insists that he can pardon himself for any crime he is convicted of.
Letter: Thanks to educators for their support
I am one of 35 US citizens to receive the Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching grant for the 2018-2019 school year.