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Gov. Mike Dunleavy announces Friday, July 15, 2022, that 2022 most PFD payments will be distributed on Sept. 20, 2022. (Screenshot)

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Opinion: A historic PFD still leaves work to be done

It is important to remember the dividend is not, and has never been, a welfare payment

UNAC members and supporters rally near the University of Alaska Southeast campus in Juneau on Thursday, Sept. 9, (Ben Hohenstatt / Juneau Empire)

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Opinion: The transparent bad faith of university management

Our educational institutions must be held a higher standard.

This map shows regional corporations established by the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act in 1971. (Courtesy Photo | US National Park Service)

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Opinion: New research guide includes ANCSA gems

AHS has just completed the first comprehensive guide to historical sources about ANCSA.

Copies of the Alaska State Constitution are available outside the lieutenant governor’s office on the third floor of the Alaska State Capitol. (Peter Segall / Juneau Empire File)

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Opinion: Alaskans should vote against a constitutional convention

Possible disruption to our current local governance is frightening

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Opinion: We do not need to convene a constitutional convention

Ways to amend the constitution already exist.

Former Gov. Frank Murkowski speaks on a range of subjects during an interview with the Juneau Empire in May 2019. (Michael Penn/Juneau Empire File)

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Alaska Voices: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it

Alaska’s original constitution is one of the things in government that is working well and should be left…

The Alaska state seal can be seen at the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport in Anchorage, Alaska, in February 2022. (Peninsula Clarion file)

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Alaska Voices: State needs new approach to economic development

Our elected officials and community leaders have failed to articulate a clear vision to get growth going

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Voting: Our superpower

Voting may not traditionally be your favorite thing to do but looking at the voter turnout for the…

Kate Troll (Courtesy Photo / Kate Troll)

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Opinion: The real ‘at last!’ on climate change

In Alaska, the Inflation Reduction Act offers come game-changing features.

Jessica Cook, left, and Les Gara stand in the Peninsula Clarion’s offices on Thursday, June 30, 2022, in Kenai, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Alaska Voices: You deserve a governor who’ll put jobs, privacy, fish first

We can do better

The official ballot for the Aug. 16, 2022, Special General Election features ranked choice voting. (State of Alaska Division of Elections)

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Voices of the Peninsula: Check out the ballot before you vote

This kind of ballot is not something you have seen before.

Former Gov. Bill Walker, right, and his running mate former commissioner of the Department of Labor and Workforce Development Heidi Drygas, speak to Juneauites gathered for a fundraiser at a private home in Juneau on Tuesday, June 7, 2022. (Peter Segall / Juneau Empire File)

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Opinion: Why I’m voting for Walker

Walker is the only candidate with the potential to govern effectively for all Alaskans.

Nick Begich III campaign materials sit on tables ahead of a May 16 GOP debate held in Juneau. (Peter Segall / Juneau Empire File)

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Opinion: Nick Begich is who Alaska and America need now

It is in Alaska’s best interest to elect a member of the Republican party

Michael Heimbuch attends a memorial service for the late Drew Scalzi on Aug. 5, 2005, at the Seafarers Memorial on the Homer Spit in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Point of View: King salmon: The clash of culture and science

People do some pretty awful things to king salmon stocks

State Sen. Josh Revak (Photo provided)

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The time has come to end Big Tech’s rule

The hope is that the bipartisan American Innovation and Choice Online Act (S. 2992) will come to the…

Lieutenant governor candidate Edie Grunwald speaks at a Charlie Pierce campaign event at Paradisos restaurant in Kenai on Saturday, March 5, 2022. (Camille Botello/Peninsula Clarion)

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Election Integrity: An Alaskan question with an Alaskan answer

A needless round of feel-good meetings and what-if conversations will be a thing of the past

This photo shows the University of Alaska Southeast campus in Juneau. (Jonson Kuhn / Juneau Empire File)

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Opinion: I’m a longtime educator, and I’m supporting Walker/Drygas

The issues our state faces are significant with regard to education.

Larry Persily (Peninsula Clarion file)

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Opinion: Congress could keep health insurance costs from rising, but it has to act fast

The cost of health insurance will rise substantially next year for about 13 million Americans

The offical ballot for the Aug. 16, 2022, Special General Election features ranked choice voting. (State of Alaska Divison of Elections)

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Opinion: Alaskans deserve an election system that represents our differences

The new system’s goal is to make this election cycle transparent, secure and easy for all Alaskans to…

UAA Chancellor Sean Parnell (Courtesy)

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Opinion: UAA’s career certificates are helping to fill Alaska’s workforce pipeline

At UAA, we are announcing a new suite of certificate programs responding to some of the state’s most…