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Opinion: Poor Southcentral spending decisions matter to everyone
Too many residents, business owners and politicians of Southcentral Alaska — we’re talking the state’s population center of…
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Opinion: The Kenai Peninsula could become Alaska’s 1st ‘corridor of life’
The Kenai Peninsula holds a kind of clarity that is hard to find in most places. Between the…
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As the dark season begins, more light
It’s November in Fairbanks, when the sun reminds you of where on the globe you’re leaving the snowy…
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Point of View: Youth Corner: Fostering a ‘third space’ for community youth
I was fortunate enough to have attended the Boys and Girls club here in Homer for most of…
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Point of View: It takes a hamlet to feed the hungry
Homer is known as “the cosmic hamlet by the sea” or, alternately, as “a quaint little drinking village…
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Opinion: New service takes the crime out of being a bagman
Used to be, a bagman was the guy in the movie who picked up or delivered the takings…
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Red aurora rare enough to be special
Charles Deehr will never forget his first red aurora. On Feb. 11, 1958, Deehr was a student at…
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What’s in an Alaska name?
I once asked a snowmachiner heading out on a trail from Nome where he was going.
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Opinion: Candidates should pay a penalty for false promises
A lot of time, energy and legal fees have been spent on political and court fights to limit…
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Opinion: It’s my own fault, but that doesn’t make it easier
I use a tablet to read newspapers. It started maybe a decade ago, when an increasing number of…