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Opinion: Protecting the purpose: Why funding schools must include student activities
High school sports and activities are experiencing record participation. They are also experiencing unprecedented pressure — pressure that…
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Term limits ensure fresh leadership and accountability
75 years after the 22nd amendment, let’s finish the job and term limit Congress.
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Opinion: Ferry system swims or sinks with federal aid
The Alaska Marine Highway System has never fully paid its own way with ticket revenues; it’s always needed…
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The scent of barren ground grizzly
Unlike most of us, Jordan Pruszenski has held in her arms the following wild animals: wolves, caribou, beavers,…
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Opinion: It’s time to end Alaska’s fiscal experiment
For decades, Alaska has operated under a fiscal and budgeting system unlike any other state, and some could…
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Opinion: Senator Murkowski needs to caucus with Democrats
The Republican values she believed in are no longer.
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20 years of Arctic report cards
Twenty years have passed since scientists released the first version of the Arctic Report Card, now a staple…
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Opinion: World doesn’t need another blast of hot air
Everyone needs a break from reality — myself included.
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Planet Youth Homer: Quality after-school programming protects kids
“It’s 10 p.m., do you know where your children are?” From 1960 through the late 1990s this public…
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Carl Benson embodied the far North
Carl Benson’s last winter on Earth featured 32 consecutive days during which temperatures in his chosen town did…