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LaDawn Druce asks Sen. Jesse Bjorkman a question during a town hall event on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Opinion: Addressing Kenai Peninsula’s education and public safety employee shortage

Many of our best and brightest educators take a hard and close look at the teacher’s retirement system…

A line of voters runs out the door of the Diamond Ridge Voting Precinct at the Homer Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center on Election Day, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022, in Homer, Alaska. Chamber Executive Director Brad Anderson said he had never seen the amount of people coming through the polling place. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

Opinion

Last call to voice your vote!

By voting, even if they are uncontested seats, you are honoring the civic duty of voting and acknowledging…

Mike O'Meara

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Letters to the Editor

Paul Banks thanks you for generosity and support of outdoor learning

UAA Provost Denise Runge photographed outside the Administration and Humanities Building.

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Opinion: UAA offers affordable and convenient pathways that prepare students for the next step

At UAA, we provide numerous academic programs designed to meet specific workforce needs

Mavis Muller

Opinion

Burning Basket’s temporary art leaves lasting impression

As the lead volunteer for the Burning Basket project, a volunteer-dependent, weather-affected labor love, I have been witnessing…

A line of voters runs out the door of the Diamond Ridge Voting Precinct at the Homer Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center on Election Day, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022, in Homer, Alaska. Chamber Executive Director Brad Anderson said he had never seen the amount of people coming through the polling place. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

Opinion

For those who vote and those who don’t

It is a right to vote, or not. Our local community elections happen every October; this year it’s…

Mike O'Meara

Opinion

Letters to the Editor

Restore government confidence starting at local level

Opinion

The dubious Dunleavy deal to use public dollars for personal legal costs

It’s a tired game of deja vu: Gov. Mike Dunleavy and Attorney General Treg Taylor are again attempting…

Opinion

Point of View: Why should you celebrate National Estuaries Week with us?

The No. 1 reason is that you call one home! Kachemak Bay and Cook Inlet are both estuaries.…

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Pay It Forward: A winter of big reads at the library

Homer to read and celebrate “The Cold Millions” by Jess Walter in January

A line of voters runs out the door of the Diamond Ridge Voting Precinct at the Homer Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center on Election Day, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022, in Homer, Alaska. Chamber Executive Director Brad Anderson said he had never seen the amount of people coming through the polling place. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

Opinion

How many ways can you vote?

Multiple ballot options available to voters

Erin Coughlin Hollowell

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Pay It Forward: What does it mean to give?

Tucked away on the hill in Homer is a fairly new nonprofit called Storyknife Writers Retreat. Established by…

Mike O'Meara

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Letters to the Editor

Concerns about invasive species