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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,…
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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,…
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Op-ed: Starving the beast
One way to kill a predatory animal is to deny it sustenance. The tax-cut bill passed by the…
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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…
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Op-ed: The con artists
It’s like your standard con: The flimflammer counts on the flimflammee to be ripe for the swindle, to…
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Op-ed: The return of virtue
Rarely has the idiom “virtue is its own reward” looked better than it does in light of the…
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Editorial: ‘Tis the season for giving
Between Thanksgiving and the New Year, it is easy to get caught up in the holiday rush, feel…
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Op-ed: The Trump presidency isn’t nearly as bad as it sounds
The president of the United States wakes up some mornings seemingly determined to convince as many people as…
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What others say: Want better air? Follow the rules
Winter in Fairbanks is deceptively pristine in its winter white blanket of snow. With the hard winter comes…
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Op-ed: John Conyers is the albatross that Democrats deserve
There are sexual harassers, and then there is John Conyers, the Democrat from Detroit who made his congressional…
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What others say: Alaska rises and falls with its resources
Alaska’s economy is based on natural resource development, whether it’s oil, natural gas, fishing, mining or timber. Even…
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Op-ed: Better late than never: Really?
The English poet of the Middle Ages, Geoffrey Chaucer, is generally credited with coining the phrase that has…
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Thanks to all for Harvest Auction
Thanks to all for Harvest Auction Kenai Fine Art Center wishes to thank all the artists, vendors and…
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What others say: Untruths circulate about estate tax
As he raised estate tax rates to fund work programs during the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt said,…
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Op-ed: Season’s retreatings
Still another Thanksgiving has passed, and I have done what I always do: nothing. I didn’t overeat, and…
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What others say: Lower health costs could be a SNAP
For years, we’ve been hearing public health officials make this argument: If you want to lower health care…
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Op-ed: Can Trump-haters be thankful for him?
Any other Republican president but Donald Trump might expect to get at least some credit for the mostly…
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Editorial: For change to happen, conversation needs to continue
After the Legislature adjourned its special session last Tuesday, the Legislative Council decided to form a working group…
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Op-ed: The human turkeys
This Thanksgiving, better known as Black Friday Eve, we have revised the tradition a bit: We are serving…
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What others say: Speaking for the trees?
Imagine trying to widen a highway and coming up against a protracted lawsuit. The plaintiff is a tree,…