Study: Social media users shy away from opinions

WASHINGTON — People who use Facebook and Twitter are less likely than others to share their opinions on hot-button issues, even when they are offline,… Continue reading

  • Aug 26, 2014
  • By ANNE FLAHERTY

What others say: Air Force changes training for recruiters

The Air Force has come a ways in reforming recruit training since sex-abuse scandals rocked the service’s boot camp at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. And… Continue reading

  • Aug 25, 2014

Rich Lowry: Against the Ferguson mob

The chant “No justice, no peace” is an apt rallying cry for Ferguson, Missouri, where protesters don’t truly want justice and there has been no… Continue reading

  • Aug 24, 2014
  • By Rich Lowry

What others say: USA Freedom Act a testimony to informed public debate

A little more than a year after former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden revealed that the federal government was collecting and storing the telephone… Continue reading

  • Aug 24, 2014

Cal Thomas: ISIS ‘a national security threat’

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — U.S. airstrikes that have helped Iraqi and Kurdish forces recapture a strategic dam and halt, at least temporarily, the advance of… Continue reading

  • Aug 23, 2014
  • By Cal Thomas

Bob Franken: The rules of the rule of law

Let’s face it: We have a law-enforcement problem in this country. Far too often, the people who are supposed to protect us from the bad… Continue reading

  • Aug 23, 2014
  • By Bob Franken

Both sides should be watching for effects of oil tax change

The dust is starting to settle on Tuesday’s primary election, with voters narrowly rejecting a referendum to repeal the oil tax law passed by the… Continue reading

  • Aug 23, 2014

Let’s make school year a safe and successful one

Fall is in the air, silvers are in the river, and students across the Kenai Peninsula are back in school.The first day of classes for… Continue reading

  • Aug 21, 2014

What others say: Leaders must step up in Ferguson

It was reported Monday by Andrea Peterson of the Washington Post that the city of Ferguson had hired a Chesterfield public relations firm that specializes… Continue reading

  • Aug 20, 2014
  • By St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial

Rich Lowry: Free Rick Perry

It tells you much about the laughable indictment of Texas Gov. Rick Perry that it has made him a figure of bipartisan sympathy.Perry was indicted… Continue reading

  • Aug 20, 2014
  • By Rich Lowry

More Clinton-Obama differences likely to emerge

WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton’s split with President Barack Obama over a foreign policy “organizing principle” isn’t likely to be the last time differences emerge… Continue reading

  • Aug 19, 2014
  • By KEN THOMAS

Bob Franken: Policing the police

This is a true story (as opposed to my usual falsehoods): A few years back, when the World Bank and International Monetary Fund would hold… Continue reading

  • Aug 19, 2014
  • By Bob Franken

What others say: Fort Wainwright again on list of bases studied for cuts

Almost as soon as the Interior has dealt with each event that has the potential to threaten the placement of military service members at nearby… Continue reading

  • Aug 19, 2014

Cal Thomas: Robin Williams – comedy and tragedy

Robin Williams made me cry. Like his mentor, the late Jonathan Winters, Williams, who committed suicide Monday, made me laugh so intensely tears would come… Continue reading

  • Aug 18, 2014
  • By Cal Thomas

What others say: Secondhand shops have chance to be heroes

Operators of Juneau’s secondhand stores have the opportunity to be heroes, even if they’re the reluctant kind.The 7-2 passage of an ordinance by Assembly members… Continue reading

  • Aug 18, 2014

Rich Lowry: The Ferguson melodrama

Even if the police in Ferguson, Missouri, are the brutal occupying force alleged by the protestors there, what do local shop owners have to do… Continue reading

  • Aug 17, 2014

What others say: Selection of preferred F-35 site great news

The Interior got some of the best news Thursday that residents have seen all year. After a lengthy selection process, the Air Force announced it… Continue reading

  • Aug 17, 2014

Campaigning in Alaska has a distinct feel

EAGLE RIVER — Wearing a fleece vest with his name and the logo of the northwestern city of Nome, Lt. Gov Mead Treadwell walked through… Continue reading

  • Aug 17, 2014
  • By BECKY BOHRER and NICHOLAS RICCARDI

Plenty on the ballot in Tuesday’s primary

If you’ve somehow managed to avoid the newspaper, TV, radio, Internet and your mailbox for the past few months, here’s a quick reminder: Alaska’s primary… Continue reading

  • Aug 16, 2014

Treider: A different vision of Alaska’s future

In 1985, my young family followed an oilfield truck up the Alcan and we began a life of adventure, beauty, hard work, laughter and tears.… Continue reading

  • Aug 14, 2014
  • By Eric Treider