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Letter to the Editor: Kudos Mayor Pierce
Kudos Mayor Pierce
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Bob Franken: Federal government’s sad song …
In 1932, as the Great Depression took hold and once-proud Americans were reduced to begging, Bing Crosby recorded…
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Letter to the Editor: Alaska AG’s support of Christian cross case unacceptable
As a local humanist, I find it wholly unacceptable that Alaska Attorney General Kevin G. Clarkson has signed…
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Voices of the Peninsula: Lake ‘Monsters’ Revisited?
Using the term “monster” is always
an attention-grabber, so now that you are reading this, let us go…
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Cal Thomas: Cough up, America
When you receive your paycheck and look at the withholding for federal, state and sometimes city taxes, along…
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Alaska Voices: State and DNR committed to safely developing Donlin Gold project
As Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources (DNR), I take very seriously my department’s responsibility to…
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Letter to the Editor: Central peninsula community: generous and always there to help
On behalf of the board of directors and staff of The LeeShore Center, I would like to extend…
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Cal Thomas: The Trump speech and the response
Despite advance billing that President Trump’s border wall speech would break news and contain new information, it was…
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Rich Lowry: Millennial socialism 101
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s so-called Green New Deal makes the obligatory nod to the original New Deal, but FDR’s handiwork…
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Cal Thomas: What’s the point of a carbon tax rebate?
DUBLIN, Ireland — The Irish government is proposing rebates to a carbon tax it recently imposed to households…
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Rich Lowry: The irrational allergy to the wall
It’s a wonder that Democrats haven’t staked out a negotiating position demanding the destruction of already-existing barriers along…
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Voices of the Peninsula: Gov. Dunleavy leaves Alaskans in a ditch
When our new governor took down the “Climate Action for Alaska” webpage as one of the first acts…
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Cal Thomas: Decision time on Brexit
LONDON — To Brexit, or not to Brexit, that is the question (apologies to Shakespeare). The answer to…
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Bob Franken: Trump between Iraq and a hard place
As we hopefully shout “Happy New Year!” let’s hand it to President Donald Trump. There he was, the…
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Rich Lowry: Movie of the year brings the humanity of those who fought WWI to life
The filmmaker Peter Jackson deserves more than an Oscar; he deserves a medal.
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Bob Franken: And the winner is …
I am happy to report that television news hangs on, even in this fragmented world of social media,…
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Rich Lowry: Trump should chill about the stock market
Donald Trump may watch the stock market more closely than any day trader.
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Bob Franken: The exchange rate
The holiday week leading up to New Year’s has special meaning. The day after holy Christmas, we celebrate…