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Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships. (logo provided)

Point of View: A few ideas for Mental Health Awareness Month

What are some things you can practice this month and subsequently apply to your life?

Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships. (logo provided)
The logo of the Homer Trails Alliance.

Point of View: Connecting our community through trails

Homer is booming with housing development and the viability of long-standing trails is threatened

The logo of the Homer Trails Alliance.
Charlie Pierce stands in his home on Thursday, March 11, 2022, in Sterling, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

Point of View: Poorly managed fishery bycatch is an Alaska tragedy

Alaskan fishermen suffer the effects of policy failures

Charlie Pierce stands in his home on Thursday, March 11, 2022, in Sterling, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
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Point of View: Bay Club purchase could be city community center

Instead of building new center on HERC site, why not purchase the Bay Club?

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Homer Foundation

Point of View: Home is where the heart is

In 1985, I traveled to California for a job interview and thought, since I’m close, I’ll visit my friend in Alaska

Homer Foundation
Peter Zuyus

Point of View: Ranked choice voting is not difficult

Let’s stop telling people how difficult it is, how complicated it is and explain this in the simple form that it is

Peter Zuyus
Michael O’Meara.

Point of View: Never forget the Exxon Valdez oil spill

It’s time for a wider remembering than my own

Michael O’Meara.
Michael McCarthy. (Photo provided)

Voices of the Peninsula: Don’t allow directional drilling

The environmental risk of opening Kachemak Bay to fracking is incomprehensible.

Michael McCarthy. (Photo provided)
Michael Schallock. (Photo provided)

Point of View: Understanding daylight saving time in Alaska

It would be healthiest if Alaska adjusted our clocks back two hours this fall

Michael Schallock. (Photo provided)
Grace Ridge Brewing co-owner Sherry Stead. (Photo provided)

Point of View: SB9 will end new tasting rooms in Alaska

I am asking the Legislature to keep the current population limits for breweries, wineries and distilleries

Grace Ridge Brewing co-owner Sherry Stead. (Photo provided)
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Point of View: It’s time for true conservatives to renounce Trump

Of far more consequence than freedom of speech to our future is the responsibility for civil discourse and intellectual honesty

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William Marley’s proposal for a bayfront park on the Sterling Highway. (Illustration provided)

Point of View: Some alternatives for a community center

Entering the City of Homer from Bluff Point has to be one of the most pristine view experiences of geography and nature, ever.

William Marley’s proposal for a bayfront park on the Sterling Highway. (Illustration provided)
Terri Spigelmyer. (Photo provided)

Pay It Forward: Instilling volunteerism in the next generation

We hope to have instilled in our children empathy, cultural awareness, long-term planning and the selflessness of helping others

Terri Spigelmyer. (Photo provided)
Hal Shepherd in an undated photo taken near Homer, Alaska. (Photo courtesy of Hal Shepherd.)

Point of View: Election integrity or right-wing power grab?

Dr. King would be appalled at what is happening today

Hal Shepherd in an undated photo taken near Homer, Alaska. (Photo courtesy of Hal Shepherd.)
Nancy HIllstrand. (Photo provided)

Point of View: Trail Lakes is the sockeye salmon hero, not Tutka Bay

Tutka hatchery produces a pink salmon monoculture desecrating Kachemak Bay State Park and Critical Habitat Area as a feed lot

Nancy HIllstrand. (Photo provided)
Charlie Franz.

Point of View: Election integrity is not anti-democratic

The federalization of elections by the Freedom to Vote Act infringes on the constitutional right of states to regulate elections.

Charlie Franz.
Bjørn Olson (Photo provided)

Point of View: Homer Drawdown moves forward with climate-change solutions

Two years ago, a small group of concerned citizens decided to use this book as a guiding document

Bjørn Olson (Photo provided)
Homer Foundation

Point of View: Reflections during December snow

Then the stories of fellow Americans who give to help out as the money mounts into the millions becomes the next story.

Homer Foundation
Bill Walker, left, candidate for governor, and Heidi Drygas, right, candidate for lieutenant governor. (Photo provided, Bill Walker and Heidi Drygas)
Bill Walker, left, candidate for governor, and Heidi Drygas, right, candidate for lieutenant governor. (Photo provided, Bill Walker and Heidi Drygas)
Deborah Morel’s beachhouse near Ninilchik, Alaska. (Photo courtesy of Deborah Morel)

Voices of the Peninsula: The Dream Team saves the day

The story, I believe, speaks to the goodness of humankind.

Deborah Morel’s beachhouse near Ninilchik, Alaska. (Photo courtesy of Deborah Morel)