My father makes earrings from rocks. He has a philosophy about it, too. He cuts the rocks with a rock saw, then grinds the pieces… Continue reading
Homestead Kid’s stories offer a glimpse of our past On December 13, 2018, Kachemak Heritage Land Trust (KHLT) held “Homestead Kids: Tales from the North… Continue reading
Correction: The caption in the photo gave the wrong date. The caption should read “a rock sandpiper forages among ice on the Homer Spit in… Continue reading
Israel is not America’s friend We move to boycott an apartheid state and our Congress moves to make such opposition a felony. We are belly… Continue reading
Men and women should be treated equally under the law. It seems pretty basic, right? As we approach the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage, it… Continue reading
Smoke and broken mirrors in state mining safety updates Alaska Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Corri Feige paints a rosy picture, giving high grades to… Continue reading
My daughter sent me the hour-plus long video clip of the interactions on the National Mall earlier this week with the comment, “This video scares… Continue reading
The recent controversy regarding videotaped encounters between Native Americans, Catholic high school boys and Hebrew Black Israelites on Jan. 20 at the Lincoln Memorial in… Continue reading
HCOA grateful for city,
foundation support Homer Council on the Arts is grateful for the generosity of both the City and the Homer Foundation for allocating… Continue reading
When our new governor took down the “Climate Action for Alaska” webpage as one of the first acts of his administration, he left us in… Continue reading
In reading the Dec. 13, 2018 article on recommendations of the Homer Educational and Recreational Complex Task Force, some thoughts and memories came up for… Continue reading
As yet another sign of how government wants to duct tape the hands of the press to keep us from doing our jobs, at the… Continue reading
Pebble presentation was frustrating As a Cook Inlet fisherman, I found Wednesday’s Pebble Limited Partnership (PLP) presentation by Mark Hamilton at a Kenai Peninsula Economic… Continue reading
Share the Spirit needs feedback We need your feedback. Each year we learn a thing or two and try to apply that to the coming… Continue reading
In 1972, at the age of 17, I took the biggest risk of my life and went to live in Finland as an AFS foreign… Continue reading
“There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch,” the journalist Walter Morrow wrote in 1938. As we start 2019 and enter our 55th year… Continue reading
One never knows in the wee hours before a Christmas Bird Count what will occur that day. The birds, the weather, the ice, the tides,… Continue reading
Thanks, Kachemak Bay Marines Once again the Kachemak Bay Marines have sponsored the free Christmas Eve skate at the Kevin Bell Arena. A couple hundred… Continue reading
As 2018 comes to a close, it is a time when many reflect on the past year. Looking back on 2018 I realize that there… Continue reading
Thanks for Dirty Water Bill I would like to thank The Divine Sen. M, the smooth talking Sen. D. S. and congressman forever and a… Continue reading
