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
Editor’s note: This editorial originally ran in Sunday June 15, 2014 edition of the Peninsula Clarion It is time again to celebrate the bonds between… Continue reading
On Monday, the Department of Law released retired Superior Court Judge Patricia Collins’ independent investigation of the Alaska National Guard to the public. Like many… Continue reading
Our thoughts and prayers go out to all those who have been impacted by the Card Street fire, from those who have been displaced by… Continue reading
The last time Jeb Bush ran for office, it was 13 years ago. Barack Obama was serving in the Illinois state Senate. No one had… Continue reading
The U.S. scored a noteworthy victory last week when an American missile killed Nasser al-Wuhayshi, the longtime leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula… Continue reading
Jeb Bush is onto something, and it’s a shame. A book he co-wrote 20 years ago has come to light again, just as he has… Continue reading
This week the City and Borough of Juneau Assembly took up discussion on an ongoing problem in downtown Juneau — visual pollution. Put simply, there… Continue reading
The Affordable Care Act, which has helped millions of people get health care, is now fully woven into the nation’s social fabric. As President (Barack)… Continue reading
Upon hearing of the massive data breach of employee information from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) — allegedly by hackers working for the Chinese… Continue reading
On June 10, my administration issued an Alaska Hire determination to require that Alaskans get at least 90 percent of jobs on state public projects.… Continue reading
