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Letter to the Editor: Stop policing women’s bodies

Letter to the Editor: Stop policing women’s bodies

When are we going to STOP sexualizing our female population?

Letter to the Editor: Stop policing women’s bodies
The Alaska State Capitol on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

Alaska Voices: Fix the permanent fund dividend now

We need a change in how we pay the PFD.

The Alaska State Capitol on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

Letter to the Editor: Your vote can make a difference

I am writing this because only 35% of Alaskans went to the polls this year and many people say, “Oh well, it doesn’t matter because… Continue reading

Refuge Notebook: The Swan Lake Fire and wildlife

Refuge Notebook: The Swan Lake Fire and wildlife

This summer brought one of the hottest and driest summers ever recorded on the Kenai. Large areas dominated by black spruce, hot temperatures, and dry… Continue reading

Refuge Notebook: The Swan Lake Fire and wildlife
Week 2 Pigskin Pick ‘Em

Week 2 Pigskin Pick ‘Em

The opening week of the 2019 NFL season was a little uneven for the Prince of Prognostication. Denver’s debacle on Monday Night sealed a 9-7… Continue reading

Week 2 Pigskin Pick ‘Em
Company indicted for Kenai facility chemical releases

Company indicted for Kenai facility chemical releases

The oil field services company and a manager are facing 25 felony counts.

Company indicted for Kenai facility chemical releases
Bunches of fresh greens are displayed at the first Farmers Fresh Market of the season on Tuesday, June 11, 2019 at the Kenai Peninsula Food Bank near Soldotna, Alaska. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

Voices of the Peninsula: Support farmers markets for better food, stronger communities

Thank you for your supporting Alaska’s farmers markets and growers at the Soldotna Wednesday Market.

Bunches of fresh greens are displayed at the first Farmers Fresh Market of the season on Tuesday, June 11, 2019 at the Kenai Peninsula Food Bank near Soldotna, Alaska. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)
Pioneer Potluck: Clam digging with Leatha

Pioneer Potluck: Clam digging with Leatha

This week’s recipes: Annie B’s clam chowder, fast-track clam or oyster chowder, seafood macaroni salad

Pioneer Potluck: Clam digging with Leatha
A single-use plastic bag hangs on a driftwood branch at Mariner Park on the Homer Spit on Oct. 5,2018, in Homer, Alaska. It appeared someone had reused the bag to collect dog poop but then left the bag on the beach. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

Plastic bag ban proposition is back before Homer voters

Anchorage, Soldotna, Kodiak, Hooper Bay, Bethel, Palmer, Unalaska and Wasilla have also banned bags.

A single-use plastic bag hangs on a driftwood branch at Mariner Park on the Homer Spit on Oct. 5,2018, in Homer, Alaska. It appeared someone had reused the bag to collect dog poop but then left the bag on the beach. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
Schools briefs for the week of Sept. 9, 2019

Schools briefs for the week of Sept. 9, 2019

What’s happening this week

Schools briefs for the week of Sept. 9, 2019

Letter to the Editor: The educational irony of a teachers’ strike

The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District has a logo: “kpbsd –where kids come first.”

Letter to the Editor: Force Pebble to pay up front for environmental costs

If Pebble doesn’t feel it’s worth this security account then they should NOT mine Bristol Bay.

North Pole football topples Kenai

North Pole football topples Kenai

Chris Wetland, when he came to North Pole High School for Saturday afternoon’s football game against the Kenai Kardinals, was accompanied by a memory of… Continue reading

North Pole football topples Kenai
McKibben Jackinsky. (Photo by Janelle Orth)

Voices of the Peninsula: Don’t let Big Oil shut you up

We’ve all attended meetings where QA is the final agenda item.

McKibben Jackinsky. (Photo by Janelle Orth)
Mark Thiessen / associated press                                 Vic Fischer (left), Meda DeWitt (center) and Aaron Welterlen, leaders of an effort to recall Gov. Mike Dunleavy, await paperwork at the Alaska Division of Elections office in Anchorage on Thursday. Recall organizers say they submitted 49,006 signatures in an attempt to force the recall election of the first-term governor.

Recall Dunleavy campaign submits 49,000 signatures

If the application is certified, it would trigger another signature-gathering phase.

Mark Thiessen / associated press                                 Vic Fischer (left), Meda DeWitt (center) and Aaron Welterlen, leaders of an effort to recall Gov. Mike Dunleavy, await paperwork at the Alaska Division of Elections office in Anchorage on Thursday. Recall organizers say they submitted 49,006 signatures in an attempt to force the recall election of the first-term governor.
Minister’s Message: Looking for water in all the wrong places

Minister’s Message: Looking for water in all the wrong places

“How can we listen for the truth of his work and be still enough to seek his voice?”

Minister’s Message: Looking for water in all the wrong places
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, speaks during an interview at the Juneau Empire on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2109. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

Alaska Voices: Agriculture is an economic driver crucial for state food security

The Kenai Peninsula has the largest number of hoop houses per capita in the U.S.

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, speaks during an interview at the Juneau Empire on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2109. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
Refuge notebook: Why are the birch trees brown?

Refuge notebook: Why are the birch trees brown?

I was working out Swan Lake Road last month when I noticed that entire stands of birch trees looked odd. The leaves almost appeared to… Continue reading

Refuge notebook: Why are the birch trees brown?
Soldotna’s Prince of Pigskin Prognostication makes return

Soldotna’s Prince of Pigskin Prognostication makes return

The Prince of Pigskin Prognostication is back to bless loyal Clarion faithful once again for the 2019 NFL (gambling) season. After spending the last three… Continue reading

Soldotna’s Prince of Pigskin Prognostication makes return
Alaska Voices: A bipartisan determination to protect Alaska from Gov. Dunleavy

Alaska Voices: A bipartisan determination to protect Alaska from Gov. Dunleavy

We are part of the generation that built Alaska.

Alaska Voices: A bipartisan determination to protect Alaska from Gov. Dunleavy