Opinions

Staying on top of innovation in the 21st century and protecting our national security is imperative.

My ask to my community is simple: If you say you support public safety, then please do your due diligence on this matter.

While the price of oil now hovers in the $100 to $110 per barrel range, we have an opportunity to coalesce around a permanent fiscal solution for our state.

Running a city should be far less about culture wars than fixing potholes and keeping the streets plowed.

Sarah Palin’s critics and enemies like to call her a has-been. They are wrong. She is not a has-been. Not yet, anyway.

Sixty-six years after its drafting, our constitution is still highly regarded throughout the country.

Being a hospice volunteer may be one of the most satisfying volunteer opportunities of your life.

We have another huge surplus in state funds. Let’s do something positive for people with mental illnesses.

Let’s deliberate over these important issues separately and give voters a real — and reasoned — choice.

Attorney General Treg Taylor and his boss are not faithfully representing Alaskans.

Muldoon is becoming like Skid Row — we work and pay to live here and raise our children.

The Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission was designed to be a vigorous industry watchdog. Lately, it’s been anything but.

Although this special election is new and unexpected, the process is straightforward.

Many of these lawsuits, allegations and omissions look suspiciously more like “state overreach.”

In short, members of the board majority show no sense of values with regard to fairness or legality.

Will these candidates be able to act on any independent judgments? Alaska voters will ultimately decide these questions.

I’m not advocating drinking to excess, but if one must, it is far safer to do so in the backcountry — the farther back, the safer.

When the Russians decide to take back Alaska, what decision will we make?

Like peace talks in Geneva or nuclear negotiations in Vienna, Anchorage’s growing profile for Arctic policy and research makes us a natural venue for high-stakes decisions about the future of the Far North.

These vacancies present a logistical nightmare for schools.