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What others say: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau serves important role

Open a bank account using a stolen identity and you might find yourself behind bars. Open millions of…

Letters to the Editor

Letter: Over-taxing graduate, doctoral students not the answer

Over-taxing graduate, doctoral students not the answer The proposed GOP tax bill passed in the House this week…

Letters to the Editor

Letter: Boating safety class could be a life-saver

Boating safety class could be a life-saver On November 12, I attended a free Boating Safety class taught…

Opinion

Op-ed: A Dickens of a day

My wife spends a lot of time rolling her eyes. She knows, for instance, that when we meet…

Letters to the Editor

Letter: New legislation would raise awareness, funding to fight Alzheimer’s

New legislation would raise awareness, funding to fight Alzheimer’s It is time we change our thinking on Alzheimer’s…

News

KPBSD maintains class sizes

Compared to the other major school districts in Alaska, the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District has a low…

Opinion

What others say: A disturbing rise in hate crimes

A new FBI report on hate crimes tells a sobering story. For the second year in a row,…

Opinion

What others say: Curbing hate crimes will take collaboration

A new FBI report on hate crimes tells a sobering story. For the second year in a row,…

Opinion

Op-ed: Starving the beast

One way to kill a predatory animal is to deny it sustenance. The tax-cut bill passed by the…

Opinion

Alaska LNG: The time is now

Alaska now has the necessary alignment for the Alaska gasline LNG project. Mid-June 1970: one of the most…

Sports

Girls results posted from North-South wrestling meet

The Peninsula Clarion Sunday sports section accidentally left out the girls results from the North-South tournament, held Friday…

This June 26, 2014, file photo, shows a cruise ship docked in Juneau, while a paraglider soars above. The tax bill approved Saturday by the U.S. Senate will open part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling. The measure also struck down a proposed cruise ship tax that Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski said would have disproportionately affected her state. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer, File)

News

Senators tout tax bill provisions as beneficial

JUNEAU — The cruise industry has dodged a tax increase after Alaska’s U.S. senators helped strike the provision…

Education

Caring for my Backyard

Each year students across the Kenai Peninsula are tasked with finding a way to care for the place…

Life

It is what it is: Paying for the experience

So, I did it. I followed the latest pop psychology trend and spent money on an experience, rather…

Sterling Judo Club members fared well at recent tournaments. (Submitted photo)

Life

Sterling Judo Club members win in local judo competitions

Sterling Judo Club members win in local judo competitions A serious group of kids, teens and adults continues…

Life

Notes from the Recycling Bin

Did you know … In the one year from July 2016 to June 2017, approximately 2.5 million used…

Life

Learning for Life: Healthier holidays

Healthier holidays The holidays are a wonderful time of year, full of joyous celebrations and time with loved…

Opinion

Op-ed: The con artists

It’s like your standard con: The flimflammer counts on the flimflammee to be ripe for the swindle, to…

Opinion

Op-ed: The return of virtue

Rarely has the idiom “virtue is its own reward” looked better than it does in light of the…

Opinion

Editorial: ‘Tis the season for giving

Between Thanksgiving and the New Year, it is easy to get caught up in the holiday rush, feel…