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Voters fill out their ballots at the Challenger Learning Center in Kenai, Alaska on Election Day, Nov. 8, 2022. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Voter tidbit: Get prepared for the Oct. 1 municipal election

Check your voting status or register to vote online by Aug. 31

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Opinion: Fair and competitive oil taxes are working

There is a resurgence in oil production and jobs in Alaska that is directly related to our current…

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Opinion: Permanent Fund troubles make for sad music

To modernize an old expression, Alaskans are fiddling while the Permanent Fund burns.

Voters fill out their ballots at the Challenger Learning Center in Kenai, Alaska on Election Day, Nov. 8, 2022. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Voter tidbit: 2 election stories highlight voting challenges in rural Alaska

The state needs to make voting in rural areas more accommodating

Priya Helweg is the acting regional director and executive officer for the Region 10 Office of Intergovernmental and External Affairs, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (Photo courtesy U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)

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Opinion: A historic milestone in improving health benefits

The ability to afford medicines is about dignity, hope and fairness. These words from the president have been…

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Point of View: There is nothing to like about Project 2025

Project 2025 - Presidential Transition Project’s intent is radical

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Point of View: Safeguarding our children’s future

Under the failed leadership of the Biden Administration, woke agendas have targeted our children and those same woke…

Voters fill out their ballots at the Challenger Learning Center in Kenai, Alaska on Election Day, Nov. 8, 2022. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Voter tidbit: What is your voting story?

Voting is crucial for democracy to work

Celia is photographed during a break while climbers headed out of the bowl from Alpine Lake back up to the ridgeline on a return to Seldovia. (Photo provided by Drue Smith)

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Point of View: Baby girl dog rescue

Last month, across the bay in the Seldovia area, there was a lost dog and a complicated and…

Priya Helweg. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

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Opinion: Delivering for people with disabilities

Thirty-four years ago on July 26, 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law. The ADA…

Gov. Mike Dunleavy hands out pens he used to sign the budget bills for the fiscal year that began July 1 to state lawmakers during a private ceremony in Anchorage on Thursday, June 27, 2024. (Official photo from The Office of the Governor)

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Governor Dunleavy stingy with budget veto information

Gov. Mike Dunleavy has long prided himself on being a fiscal conservative. He has consistently adhered to that…

Voters fill out their ballots at the Challenger Learning Center in Kenai, Alaska on Election Day, Nov. 8, 2022. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Voter tidbit: Do you know who you will vote for?

Early primary election voting begins Aug. 5

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Point of View: 8 lawmakers upheld public trust

Core elements of good government, according to the United Nations, include transparency, integrity, accountability, and the absence of…