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A long, white strip of soft, white feathers running down the back gives the downy woodpecker its name. (Photo by Colin Canterbury/USFWS.

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Refuge Notebook: The smallest woodpecker

On a recent sortie looking for grouse in the spruce forest of the northern Kenai Peninsula, I heard…

In this 2007 file photo, an oil transit pipeline runs across the tundra to flow station at the Prudhoe Bay oil field on Alaska’s North Slope. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, File)

Opinion

Alaska Voices: Ballot Measure 1 makes important improvements

Our current tax policy is flawed in several respects and should be amended and improved.

Kim Reitmeier, executive director of the ANCSA Regional Association (courtesy photo)

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Alaska Voices: Ballot Measure 1 to cost thousands of jobs, billions in economic harm

Ballot Measure 1 is not the way forward for Alaskan jobs or families.

Snickerdoodle cookies have a distinct cinnamon sugar scrawled shell, photographed on Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020, in Anchorage, Alaska. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

Life

Kalifornsky Kitchen: Memories of snickerdoodles

I asked my grandma if she had her mother’s snickerdoodle recipe.

The Capitol building in Juneau, Alaska. (Peter Segall | Juneau Empire File)

Opinion

Alaska Voices: Show us the money

Interactive website allows citizens, candidates to build real budgets

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Alaska Voices: Will America’s democracy die?

The most significant factor weakening democracy is buildup of rigid hatred between political parties

Kenai Central's Jayna Boonstra receives a hug from father and Kardinals coach, Todd Boonstra, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020, at the ASAA cross-country running championships at Kincaid Park in Anchorage, Alaska. (Photo by Joey Klecka)

Sports

Kenai’s Boonstra wins Division II cross-country title

SoHi finishes season of tribute to McKenney

Russell Wagner graduated from the dental school within the College of Physicians and Surgeons in San Francisco in the spring of 1931. Shortly thereafter, he made his first trip to Seward. (Photo courtesy of college archives)

Life

When the Kenai had just one full-time Dentist, Part 2

Part One discussed how Dr. Russell Wagner, the Kenai Peninsula’s only full-time dentist in 1960.

A Homer resident casts their vote during the Primary Election on Tuesday, Aug. 18 at Homer City Hall.(Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Opinion: Vote Ballot Measure 2 gives voices to Alaska’s independent voters

All candidates will vie for Alaskans’ votes on an equal footing.

Les Gara (courtesy photo)

Opinion

Opinion: A vote for Ballot Measure 1 is a vote for Alaska

Ballot Measure 1 says we don’t have to live with self-inflicted poverty.

Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources Corri A. Feige.

Opinion

Opinion: Thank you, wildland firefighters!

This fall marks the end of a well-below-average fire season in Alaska.

This undated file photo shows the Trans-Alaska pipeline and pump station north of Fairbanks. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, File)

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Alaska Voices: Ballot Measure 1 harmful for rural Alaska

Oil supports one out of every four jobs in Alaska and half our state budget.

Andrew Berg outside his ҈omesteadӠcabin, which stood originally on Tustumena Lake and now stands at the headquarters of Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. (Photo provided by Kenai National Wildlife Refuge)

Sports

Refuge Notebook: If these walls could talk

Big game guide Berg led remarkable life

Hal Shepherd in an undated photo taken near Homer, Alaska. (Photo courtesy of Hal Shepherd.)

Opinion

Point of View: Is sacrificing ANWR worth it?

There are alternatives to sacrificing the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s coastal plain

Voting stations sit ready in Homer City Hall during the regular municipal election Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020 in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

Opinion

Voices of the Peninsula: Ballot Measure 2 provides opportunity for change

Choose ranked-choice voting and put away hyper-partisanship

In this 2007 file photo, an oil transit pipeline runs across the tundra to flow station at the Prudhoe Bay oil field on Alaska’s North Slope. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, File)

Opinion

Alaska Voices: Restore fiscal sanity, vote “yes” on Ballot Measure 1

Do not listen to the same broken promises and expect the future to be different.

Homemade ice cream steeped with chai spices and churned with local honey is frozen and ready to be enjoyed, on Monday, Oct. 5, 2029, in Anchorage, Alaska. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

Life

Churning ice cream at home

Winter is a great time to break out the ice cream machine

Blotter bug

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Borough appropriates funds to replace state police dispatch position

The borough expects the state to issue a full reimbursement for the cost of the dispatcher.

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Opinion

Alaska Voices: Finish the ballot!

Voters have an incredible amount of information on whether to retain or remove judges in office.

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Opinion: Ballot Measure 1 casts a pall over students’ futures

We can ensure the energy industry will be able to continue supplying jobs for generations to come.