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OPINION: Women Standing for LaFrance and Asking Tuck to Step Aside

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Anchorage desperately needs not only a new name in leadership, but a qualitatively different experience of leadership. With 25 years of management experience, and six years on the Assembly – including two as Chair – and with deep integrity,...
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Opinion: We Create our own Bullies

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When Hilcorp threatened to leave Alaska if our legislature decides that they should pay corporate taxes, something that is standard for major oil companies in the state, they didn’t realize how many Alaskans were ready to call their bluff. This...
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OPINION: Repetitive Lies Exaggerate Soundness of State’s Development Plans

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Gov. Mike Dunleavy took a page from Trump’s playbook in staging his recent “Sustainable Energy Conference”: repeat an untruth often enough and many people will believe it.  And it’s not just one untruth holding up a flimsy house of...
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OPINION: There is a Plan to Address Homelessness, and it’s Working

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What’s this Clean Slate Strategy? Is the Anchorage Assembly considering sanctioned camps? What’s going on at Tudor and Elmore? Why are there so many tents everywhere? I don’t blame anyone for wondering what the heck is going on and...
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OPINION: The Economic Case for a Significant Investment in Education

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I am proud to be a born and raised Fairbanksan. I love our amazing community and I plan to stay here for the rest of my life, but this can't be said for every one of our Fairbanks neighbors....
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OPINION: Alaska is facing a foster care crisis

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Alaska is facing a foster care crisis. The good news is that with your help we can fix what harms our children the most.  Today, Alaska has a damaging shortage of foster homes. We should never tell children that a...
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OPINION: Enough Talk of a Fiscal Plan – Alaska Needs Fiscal Action

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The House Majority is the biggest roadblock to long-term fiscal stability for Alaska. Leadership will not bring bills to the floor that would address our state’s massive and growing structural deficit that threatens funding for roads, schools, public safety,...
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OPINION: One Candidate Testified in Favor of a Gerrymander. The Other Fought in a Lawsuit Against It.

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East Anchorage Assembly candidate Spencer Moore says he’s running to be East Anchorage’s “voice to the Assembly,” but he testified in favor of an unconstitutional political gerrymander that would have reduced East Anchorage’s voice and given more power to...
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OPINION: It’s Time to Step Up and Fund Education

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It is time to make bold investments in Alaska and the future of our children and families. It is time for the legislature to act and make our public education system whole again by increasing the Base Student Allocation...
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OPINION: Nonprofits Need Unions Too

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Last month, Southeast Alaska Conservation Council workers announced they were forming a union. Non-management staff publicly declared a supermajority of support and submitted a request for voluntary recognition to the organization's leadership.  The story should have ended there.  Instead, the organization...
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