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OPINION: Let’s Celebrate Building a Better Alaska

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One year ago today, Congress passed the most significant action we have ever taken to tackle the climate crisis. Together we passed the Inflation Reduction Act, and across our state, we see the stunning improvements it’s bringing to our...
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OPINION: The Inflation Reduction Act has the Potential to Shift the Imbalance of Power in Alaska

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As the Biden Administration celebrates the anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the work to fulfill its ambitious goals — equitable job creation, clean energy generation, emissions reduction, and sustainable investments in the economic development of rural and...
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OPINION: Alaska Women Support Chris Tuck for Mayor of Anchorage 

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We are here to express our support for Chris Tuck for Mayor of Anchorage. His 14-year voting record in the Alaska State Legislature reflects his support for women and a woman’s right to choose. He is a person of...
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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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Dunleavy’s Investment Whisperer, a Death on the North Slope

Commentary Nathaniel Herz, Northern Journal -
This week’s digest of short news items from across Alaska includes items on the death of a North Slope oil industry engineer who was working for a Hilcorp contractor, an investor who’s been quietly acting as a volunteer advisor...
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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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