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Point of View: Bay Club purchase could be city community center

Instead of building new center on HERC site, why not purchase the Bay Club?

Homer Foundation

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Point of View: Home is where the heart is

In 1985, I traveled to California for a job interview and thought, since I’m close, I’ll visit my…

Michael O’Meara.

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Point of View: Never forget the Exxon Valdez oil spill

It’s time for a wider remembering than my own

Peter Zuyus

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Point of View: Ranked choice voting is not difficult

Let’s stop telling people how difficult it is, how complicated it is and explain this in the simple…

Michael McCarthy. (Photo provided)

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Voices of the Peninsula: Don’t allow directional drilling

The environmental risk of opening Kachemak Bay to fracking is incomprehensible.

Michael Schallock. (Photo provided)

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Point of View: Understanding daylight saving time in Alaska

It would be healthiest if Alaska adjusted our clocks back two hours this fall

Grace Ridge Brewing co-owner Sherry Stead. (Photo provided)

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Point of View: SB9 will end new tasting rooms in Alaska

I am asking the Legislature to keep the current population limits for breweries, wineries and distilleries

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Point of View: It’s time for true conservatives to renounce Trump

Of far more consequence than freedom of speech to our future is the responsibility for civil discourse and…

William Marley’s proposal for a bayfront park on the Sterling Highway. (Illustration provided)

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Point of View: Some alternatives for a community center

Entering the City of Homer from Bluff Point has to be one of the most pristine view experiences…

Terri Spigelmyer. (Photo provided)

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Pay It Forward: Instilling volunteerism in the next generation

We hope to have instilled in our children empathy, cultural awareness, long-term planning and the selflessness of helping…

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

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Point of View: Election integrity or right-wing power grab?

Dr. King would be appalled at what is happening today

Nancy HIllstrand. (Photo provided)

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Point of View: Trail Lakes is the sockeye salmon hero, not Tutka Bay

Tutka hatchery produces a pink salmon monoculture desecrating Kachemak Bay State Park and Critical Habitat Area as a…

Charlie Franz.

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Point of View: Election integrity is not anti-democratic

The federalization of elections by the Freedom to Vote Act infringes on the constitutional right of states to…

Bjørn Olson (Photo provided)

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Point of View: Homer Drawdown moves forward with climate-change solutions

Two years ago, a small group of concerned citizens decided to use this book as a guiding document

Homer Foundation

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Point of View: Reflections during December snow

Then the stories of fellow Americans who give to help out as the money mounts into the millions…

Bill Walker, left, candidate for governor, and Heidi Drygas, right, candidate for lieutenant governor. (Photo provided, Bill Walker and Heidi Drygas)

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Alaska Voices: Alaska infrastructure and jobs more important than politics

Dunleavy was silent on federal infrastructure, jobs bill.

Deborah Morel’s beachhouse near Ninilchik, Alaska. (Photo courtesy of Deborah Morel)

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Voices of the Peninsula: The Dream Team saves the day

The story, I believe, speaks to the goodness of humankind.

Cristen San Roman. (Photo provided)

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Point of View: Is management of Cook Inlet catered to special interest groups?

If these fish are so at risk, why is BOEM able to move forward with lease sale 258?

Homer Foundation

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Point of View: Grateful for the hidden ‘good’

Gratitude: Noun

Homer High School Principal Douglas Waclawski. (Photo provided)

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Point of View: What is Homer High School about?

What I consider Homer High’s strength is that we are a place for learning.