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Letter to the Editor: Understanding Dunleavy’s win

Understanding Dunleavy’s win

A Welcome from Superintendent O’Brien

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A Welcome from Superintendent O’Brien

The 2019 - 2020 school year is here and we are ready. The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District…

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Medicaid waiver provides key tool to redesign state’s behavioral health system

Why does Alaska need an 1115 Waiver?

The Swan Lake Fire can be seen from the East Fork Moose River bridge on Thursday, June 27, 2019. (Photo courtesy Robert Kuiper)

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Alaska’s summer 2019 fire season was one for the record books

110 Lower 48 crews and personnel from 46 states, Puerto Rico and Canada fought Alaska wildfires.

Pioneer Potluck: About Alaska summers — fishing, camping, traveling, visitors and mosquitoes

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Pioneer Potluck: About Alaska summers — fishing, camping, traveling, visitors and mosquitoes

Taking visitors to see the peninsula is a summertime tradition.

This 1991 photo provided by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game shows spawning pink salmon in Anan Creek, near Wrangell, Alaska. In 2019, wild populations of pink salmon are flourishing. Their numbers are enhanced by the annual release of 1.8 billion fish from Alaska hatcheries and critics say they’re having an effect on other species. (ADF&G via AP)

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Pink salmon numbers may threaten other North Pacific species

Researchers say the voracious eaters are thriving at the expense of higher-value sockeye, seabirds.

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In memory of Jean Brockel — fireball in the best way

It was several years before I had another teacher who approached the passion of Miss Bardelli.

Refuge notebook: The difference between predicting climate change and its ecological outcomes

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Refuge notebook: The difference between predicting climate change and its ecological outcomes

The University of Alaska Fairbanks has a great online climate forecasting tool. Simply type in a town, the…

In this Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019 photo, Sen. Chris Birch, R-Anchorage, listens to other senators during a Senate session at the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau. Birch, a former state House member who also served on the Fairbanks North Star Borough and Anchorage assemblies, has died, his family said in a statement Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019. He was 68. Birch died Wednesday, Aug. 7 of a torn or ruptured aorta after experiencing chest pains and being taken to an Anchorage hospital, the family said. (Loren Holmes/Anchorage Daily News via AP)

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Republican state Sen. Chris Birch dies

Birch was elected to the Anchorage Senate seat that had been held by Republican Kevin Meyer.

Vince Beltrami with the Alaska AFL-CIO, right, speaks at a news conference Wednesday in Anchorage. Beltrami and representatives from more than two dozen organizations are asking Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy to not cut money for early education and social service programs from the state’s budget. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

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Social service groups urge Dunleavy to relax veto pen

“… The real issue we are faced with today is deciding what kind of state we want to…

Ann “Grannie Annie” Berg

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Pioneer Potluck: About family, friends and fun

All rhubarb, all the time

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State seeks review of options for psychiatric facility

The facility has been under scrutiny from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

One of the Alaska Shriners waves to the crowd during the 2019 July 4th parade in Kenai, Alaska. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion)

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Life in the Pedestrian Lane: My fifteen minutes …

Hubby and I were pleased to be asked to participate in the Fourth of July parade.

Members of the Inland Boatmen’s Union of the Pacific picket in front of the Auke Bay Terminal in Juneau, Alaska, Thursday, July 25, 2019. The union called a strike on Wednesday over failed negotiations with Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration. State officials said Thursday more than $580,000 in fares has been refunded to passengers affected by striking ferry workers. (Michael Penn/The Juneau Empire via AP)

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Striking ferry workers, state reach tentative deal

DOA: Both sides made concessions and compromises on wages, health care, length of the contract.

Refuge notebook: Rethinking nonnative species in a human-driven world

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Refuge notebook: Rethinking nonnative species in a human-driven world

Wow. In the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s 2019-2020 hunting regulations, mule deer and white-tailed deer can…

Commissioner Designee Bruce Tangeman presents the state’s revenue forecast to the Senate Finance Committee at the Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

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Opinion: The private sector, not the government, is what drives an economy

It is more important than ever that we create a smaller governmental footprint.

Voices of the Peninsula: The preposterous ACLU Lawsuit

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Voices of the Peninsula: The preposterous ACLU Lawsuit

Recently, I defended Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s token gesture of docking the judiciary’s administrative budget $344,000 — the amount…

Alaska Voices: Dunleavy must be recalled

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Alaska Voices: Dunleavy must be recalled

What we cannot afford is for Gov. Dunleavy to remain in office.

Michael Penn | Juneau Empire                                A ridicule pole carved by Sitka artist Tommy Joseph stands in front of the Planet Alaska Gallery on Ferry Way on Wednesday, in Juneau. The pole includes likenesses of Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy and President Donald Trump.

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Group seeks to oust Dunleavy

The group will need to gather 28,501 signatures.

India’s tiger population rises to nearly 3,000 animals

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India’s tiger population rises to nearly 3,000 animals

“Historic achievement” as the big cat’s population had dwindled to 1,400 about 14-15 years ago.