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Alaska Voices: Alaska’s tourism industry needs help

Alaska has suffered a triple whammy of no cruise ships, a closed Canadian border and a limited supply…

(Michael S. Lockett / Juneau Empire File)

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Opinion: Large cruise ships are a clear and present danger to Southeast Alaska

We don’t have to ban cruise tourism, but do need to eliminate the greatest risks to our communities.

Firefighter medic Andy Tighe snaps a photo of the breakaway plus-class cruise ship Norwegian Bliss while Captain Tracy Mettler operates a fireboat in the Tongass Narrows in Ketchikan, Alaska, on June 4, 2018. President Joe Biden signed into law Monday, May 24, 2021, legislation that opens a door for resumed cruise ship travel to Alaska after the pandemic last year scrapped sailings. (Dustin Safranek/Ketchikan Daily News via AP)

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Biden signs bill that may let cruises resume

Canada, amid COVID-19 concerns, has barred cruise operations through February.

In this April 22, 2021, photo, signs of spring thaw appear along the Tazlina River in Tazlina, Alaska. The Catholic Church wants to sell 462 acres that once housed the Copper Valley mission school to the Native Village of Tazlina, a federally recognized tribe. The tribe is scrambling to raise the nearly $1.9 million asking price so it can regain stewardship of its ancestral land. (John Tierney/Indian Country Today)

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Alaska village eyes return of ancestral lands

A federally recognized tribe is scrambling to raise funds to regain stewardship of the lands.

Alaska Primavera is a classic springtime pasta dish that features fresh foraged fiddleheads. Photographed on Sunday, May 23, 2021. (Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion)

Life

On the strawberry patch: Alaska primavera

Fresh fiddleheads add an Alaska twist to this pasta classic.

Alex Koplin is a founding member of Kenai Peninsula Votes. (courtesy photo)

Opinion

Voices of the Peninsula: Why not make voting fun?

I think the public should demand more measures to make voting easier.

This May 2020 photo shows an open sign illuminated on a Juneau business. Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development reports the state has added jobs but has not yet returned to pre-pandemic levels of employment. (Peter Segall / Juneau Empire File)

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Alaska gains jobs but doesn’t reach pre-pandemic levels

Numbers still lagged what they were before the pandemic, per state report.

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Opinion

Opinion: The plague of intellectual laziness

What’s become increasingly lazy, is our political discourse.

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Show us the money, redux: Alaskans respond to the chance to balance the budget

Our purpose was to engage Alaskans in a process to better understand the challenges and difficult choices ahead.

Dr. Elmer Gaede, seen here leaning against the Soldotna medical clinic in the mid-1960s, joined the central peninsula medical establishment in July 1961. (Photo courtesy of the Gaede family)

Life

Peninsula History: A hospital is born, slowly (Part 2)

Not far from upper Binkley Street in Soldotna in 1968 stood the unfinished shell of what central peninsula…

The entrance to the Kenai Courthouse in Kenai, AK as seen on February 26, 2019. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion)

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Court reports for the week of May 23, 2021

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Public safety briefs for the week of May 23, 2021

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Point of View: There’s no more need for the SAT

The test says very little about what really matters to colleges, the effort and ability of the students…

The beauty and expansiveness of the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge seen from an unmanned aircraft in the upper Kenai River and Skilak Lake. (Photo by Mark Laker, USFWS)

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Refuge Notebook: Conserving wild places and wild things

I don’t know about you, but public lands play an important role in my life. They are where…

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Life

Minister’s Message: In each, God’s unique gifts

We are all parts of the body, supporting one another in different ways, with our different skills and…

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Point of View: Help and conversation

At the hospice office we see the value in conversation, and we make an effort with everyone.

This photo shows University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau.  (Peter Segall / Juneau Empire File)

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Opinion: We can’t run our businesses without the University of Alaska

We rely on UA grads to power our workforce.

Kids enjoy homemade popsicles on May 16, 2021. (Photo courtesy Tressa Dale)

Life

On the Strawberry Patch: Make memories of summer

Popsicles are easy as can be and can even be a great way to sneak in some nutrition…

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Opinion: Dunleavy’s subservience to Trump continues

What’s profoundly frightening for America is that Dunleavy and most of his fellow Republicans have imposed silence on…

The entrance to the Peninsula Job Center is seen here in Kenai, Alaska on May 28, 2020. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion)

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State to stop $300 weekly federal unemployment aid boost

Alaska joins at least 12 other states that have said they will stop providing the extra benefit paid…