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People tour the garden plots during the 30th Annual Juneau Community Garden Harvest Fair on Saturday, Aug 24, 2024.

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Opinion: Increasing food security without a state agriculture department

There is a path to increasing food security without an Alaska Department of Agriculture this legislative session.

A vintage Underwood typewriter sits on a table on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022, at the Homer News in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Point of View: Homeschooling offers flexibility for educational needs and intellectual interests

In response to Eric Waltenbaugh’s recent letter, published in the Homer News on March 6:

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Trickle-down illiteracy

Penelope Haas is vice president of the Kachemak Bay Conservation Society and a commercial fishermen in Bristol Bay. (Courtesy photo)

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Point of View: Climate change is a hard reality

The chair of the Homer Planning Commission at a regular meeting this month called into question the science…

Gov. Mike Dunleavy compares Alaska to Mississippi data on poverty, per-pupil education spending, and the 2024 National Assessment of Education Progress fourth grade reading scores during a press conference on Jan. 31, 2025. Alaska is highlighted in yellow, while Mississippi is in red. (Jasz Garrett / Juneau Empire)

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Freeing states from the ‘stranglehold’ of the U.S. Department of Education

The USDOE has also been captured by a political ideology that has been harmful to education in America

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NRCS helps residents grow food security in Alaska

Food security is a concern for all Alaskans. Approximately 95% of food purchased in Alaska is imported, accounting…

U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan addresses members of the Alaska Legislature in the House chambers on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, in Juneau, Alaska. (Mark Sabbatini/Juneau Empire)

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Opinion: Trickle-down lawlessness

Last weekend, I signed a petition calling on Sen. Dan Sullivan to honor his oath of office. It…

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ImPeach the cantaloupe

Former Gov. Frank Murkowski speaks on a range of subjects during an interview with the Juneau Empire in May 2019. (Michael Penn / Juneau Empire File)

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Opinion: Advisors to the president should be held to the same conflict of interest standards as members of Congress

Musk’s role reminds me of a policy adopted some years ago by members of Congress — both the…

Homer Port Director Bryan Hawkins. (Photo provided)

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The importance of the Homer Harbor expansion

Homer Harbor supports jobs tied to more than 1,000 commercial fishing permit holders, 600 commercial fishing vessels, and…

Wetlands are surveyed by the Kachemak Heritage Land Trust. (Photo provided by the Kachemak Heritage Land Trust)

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Hope, strength and togetherness through conservation

Back in 1990, Kachemak Heritage Land Trust was a brand-new nonprofit in a sea of many new and…

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