It’s time for Alaskans to take a hard look at the state’s prison system and who inhabits it.Next fiscal year, the state of Alaska will… Continue reading
“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”What Winston… Continue reading
On Friday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on gay marriage rendered moot the state’s pending appeal in its own case, Hamby v. Parnell. While… Continue reading
It is telling that the South Carolina governor who called for the removal of the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the state Capitol… Continue reading
On Thursday, the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska made a big announcement. You might have missed it — it’s been… Continue reading
The media and the secular left have a love-hate relationship with the Roman Catholic Church and its popes. When the pope takes positions with which… Continue reading
One of our defining national traits is the belief that somehow, some way, we will emerge from our troubles and become a better country. The… Continue reading
With conservation of king salmon driving management of upper Cook Inlet salmon fisheries, it makes sense that managers have taken a conservative approach to the… Continue reading
Earlier this week, it was reported that four of the five black bears that had been relocated to the northern Kenai Peninsula from an Anchorage… Continue reading
It shouldn’t be a surprise that Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., has taken an unspeakable crime and made it the occasion for… Continue reading
Summer visitors — sooner or later, it’s a virtual certainty you’ll run into them. The summer solstice weekend marks the height both of daylight hours… Continue reading
This is a stupid debate. The Stars and Bars, the flag of the Confederacy, is a hate symbol. Any state that flies it on its… Continue reading
Accompanied by a strange amount of back-patting and revisionist history, Gov. Bill Walker issued a press release June 10 announcing the restoration of Alaska-hire requirements… Continue reading
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” — Martin Luther King Jr.It… Continue reading
It took 140 days, but Alaska will have a budget for the year ahead. In a long-delayed compromise that provided the votes for a draw… Continue reading
Sometimes things seem too good to be true. Last year when the Phoenix VA waiting list scandal broke, and even as we began to discover… Continue reading
A quasi-religious movement now has a genuinely religious leader.The pope’s encyclical on the environment is being hailed for its embrace of science, although it is… Continue reading
Most people who threaten others with a firearm aren’t given a paid vacation. But most people also don’t work in the Alaska Senate.It became known… Continue reading
In her reintroduction speech on Roosevelt Island in New York last Saturday, Hillary Clinton hit all the boilerplate liberal Democrat notes: The New Deal, big… Continue reading
I was a member of the Kenai Peninsula Borough (KPB) Anadromous Fish Habitat Task Force that helped write the existing salmon habitat ordinance. Some Assembly… Continue reading
