OPINION: Today, let us honor those who gave the ‘last full measure’
On this holiday, enjoy your barbecue, but also take a somber moment to remember our fallen and share the story of their sacrifice with your kids or family members. As President Lincoln said in his speech after the battle at Gettysburg, “the honored dead
OPINION: Kenai Borough’s deadly fentanyl crisis requires robust enforcement crackdown
The Kenai Peninsula does not lack compassion for those caught in addiction; it lacks the institutional will to treat opioid trafficking as the violent commercial-criminal enterprise that it
OPINION: Alaska legislators are the biggest obstacle to the gasline project
The biggest obstacle to Alaska LNG is the Alaska Legislature and whether they are willing to act before somebody else captures the market we spent decades assuming would still be there waiting for
Sealing Pandora’s Box: A win for Alaska’s Constitution, If you can keep it
Alaska legislators are empowered to police themselves, yet are largely unconcerned about enforcing key Constitutional safeguards when their own political expediency requires
OPINION: Why can’t Alaska follow Texas and open a gender ‘detransition’ clinic?
Alaska's State Medical Board drafted regulations in August 2025 to prevent minors from being surgically and chemically mutilated by medical professionals. This matter has been sitting in the Dunleavy Administration for 9
OPINION: When ‘Thank you for your service’ becomes a shallow slogan
Many veterans do not need strangers to perform respect with a slogan. They often prefer real curiosity, human recognition, and informed
OPINION: Closing the Hilcorp ‘loophole’ is really just government extortion
The Hilcorp tax debate reflects the tension between free enterprise and Alaska government’s growing demand for revenue, compounded by the state’s resistance to cut its own spending and produce structural
OPINION: When lawmakers deter resource developers, Alaskans get squeezed
Alaska’s fiscal stability will not come from squeezing the last drops out of a shrinking sector; it will come from expanding the sector
U.S. Supreme Court says mail-order abortion pills can continue while court case proceeds
In a deeply troubling decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily allowed the continued mailing of dangerous abortion drugs into pro-life states while litigation
OPINION: Fairbanks voters deserve to see their ballots counted – and keep their money home
A citizen petition now circulating in the Fairbanks North Star Borough asks the Assembly to return to hand-counted paper ballots. The case for it is moral, practical and
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