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    Opinion
    Mike O'Meara.
    Letters to the Editor
    February 5, 2026 2:30 am

    Masculinity choices

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    Larry Persily. (Juneau Empire file photo)
    Opinion: World doesn’t need another blast of hot...
    By Larry Persily • February 5, 2026 1:30 am

    Everyone needs a break from reality — myself included.

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    Van Abbott.
    Opinion: Senator Murkowski needs to caucus with Democrats
    By Van Abbott • February 5, 2026 1:30 am

    The Republican values she believed in are no longer.

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    Gov. Mike Dunleavy gestures during his State of the State address on Jan. 22, 2026. (Photo by Corinne Smith/Alaska Beacon)
    Opinion: It’s time to end Alaska’s fiscal experiment
    By Gov. Mike Dunleavy • February 5, 2026 1:30 am

    For decades, Alaska has operated under a fiscal and budgeting system unlike any other state, and some could argue any…

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    Mike O'Meara.
    Letters to the Editor
    January 29, 2026 2:30 am

    Homer Farmers Market annual meeting a great success!

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    Rudy Multz works as the Child and Family Program Manager for South Peninsula Behavioral Health and is a member of Planet Youth Homer. Photo provided by Anna Meredith
    Planet Youth Homer: Quality after-school programming protects kids
    By Rudy Multz • January 29, 2026 1:30 am

    “It’s 10 p.m., do you know where your children are?” From 1960 through the late 1990s this public service announcement…

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    Larry Persily. (Juneau Empire file photo)
    Opinion: Dunleavy writing constitutional checks he can’t cover
    By Larry Persily • January 29, 2026 1:30 am

    Gov. Mike Dunleavy, in the final year of his 2,918-day, two-term career in the job, is picking at the plate…

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    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)
    Opinion: Federal match funding is a promise to...
    By Regina Davis • January 29, 2026 1:30 am

    Alaska’s transportation system is the kind of thing most people don’t think about until it stops working. But for those…

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    Mike O'Meara.
    Letters to the Editor
    January 22, 2026 2:30 am

    Thank you for supporting winter recreation

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    Van Abbott.
    Looting the republic
    By Van Abbott • January 22, 2026 1:30 am

    A satire depicting the systematic extraction of wealth under the current U.S. regime.

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    Larry Persily. (Juneau Empire file photo)
    Opinion: It’s OK not to be one of...
    By Larry Persily • January 22, 2026 1:30 am

    This is for all of us who don’t have perfect hair — and for those of us with no hair…

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    Alaska’s natural gas pipeline would largely follow the route of the existing trans-Alaska oil pipeline, pictured here, from the North Slope. Near Fairbanks, the gas line would split off toward Anchorage, while the oil pipeline continues to the Prince William Sound community of Valdez. (Photo by David Houseknecht/United States Geological Survey)
    Opinion: Alaskans must proceed with caution on gasline...
    By Stan Jones • January 22, 2026 1:30 am

    Alaskans have watched a parade of natural gas pipeline proposals come and go, as in go nowhere. They have stalled…

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    Mike O'Meara.
    Letters to the Editor
    January 15, 2026 2:30 am

    Dear legislators, vote yes to override SB 113

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