Please, drive carefully.In recent weeks, we’ve seen multiple fatal motor vehicle accidents on the roads leading to and crossing the Kenai Peninsula, including a seven-vehicle… Continue reading
Native peoples throughout the world experience disproportionate levels of violence, the list includes suicide, homicide, sexual assault, domestic violence and child abuse. The United States… Continue reading
The Kenai River personal-use fishery has certainly had its share of headlines this month, as thousands of Alaskans converge on the city of Kenai to… Continue reading
On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare and Medicaid into law as an amendment to the Social Security Act. Most people who… Continue reading
This newspaper in the past year has questioned Canada’s mining standards, including if they exist. In light of the August 2014 failure of the Mount… Continue reading
In political news, the cliche that somebody has “sucked all of the air out of the room,” means, of course, that an individual has managed… Continue reading
If this week’s meeting about retail marijuana in downtown Fairbanks was any indication, there will be plenty of discussion before the community is on the… Continue reading
NASA has discovered the answer to all of our problems. It is another planet, a possible twin to Earth that could theoretically sustain life.This revelation… Continue reading
Now that Gov. Bill Walker has done an end-run around the legislative branch to expand Medicaid, it’s worth a look at how growing the program… Continue reading
Moses gave us the Ten Commandments. Paul gave us the Epistles. And Ta-Nehisi gave us “Between the World and Me.”The new book by Atlantic writer… Continue reading
Fourteen years ago, No Child Left Behind was rolled out with the promise that all the nation’s children would meet benchmarks in English and math… Continue reading
At his press conference last Wednesday, our president of self-regard again linked himself with Ronald Reagan, seeking to equate his supposed success in gaining a… Continue reading
Those who are past puberty might remember Mort Sahl. Sahl became one of the 1960s’ first insult comedians, who would trash just about anyone and… Continue reading
It seems that most of the population of Southcentral Alaska has descended up on the Kenai Peninsula and is either fishing, getting ready to fish… Continue reading
The commissioner of the state Department of Revenue was in Kenai this week to give a presentation on the scope of Alaska’s fiscal crisis —… Continue reading
Early this month, Jim Johnsen, the presumptive next president of the University of Alaska system, traveled to Juneau. It’s a tough time to be stepping… Continue reading
If only President Barack Obama were as hard-nosed and clever in undermining our adversaries as he is in kneecapping the U.S. Congress, the country’s strategic… Continue reading
Baby salmon campaign bridges social media and the great outdoorsAs Alaskans, our connections to salmon run deep. They’re everywhere in our lives and in the… Continue reading
Not that you care, but allow me to confess that I am part of the media. Not only that, but I am often proud of… Continue reading
Can you guess who said this?“We need to incentivize. We need to do on the North Slope what we did in Cook Inlet. We incentivized… Continue reading
