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Opinion: From the Editor: Arctic policy should be top priority
February 17th 1:58 pm
Alaska's legislators have a pretty big job to do this session, with everything imaginable on the table and lots of pressure to make big decisions that will impact Alaska for years to come
Opinion: From the Publisher: ANWAR decision need to be made one way or another at long last
February 17th 1:56 pm
It looks like the discussions of opening up the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to oil development are coming back again. This has been discussed since the mid '70s. ANWR is a section of Alaska on the Northeast coast that comprises 19 million acres of land. [...]
Opinion: Time to help shareholders in need
February 17th 1:54 pm
Greetings. I felt compelled enough to write this letter after listening to and speaking with numerous people of the NANA region. I hope this very urgent matter will be heard and gain some attention.
Opinion: Marine biologist vs. "Big Miracle"
February 17th 1:44 pm
I'm a marine mammal biologist with NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. I was first sent up to Barrow because during the early parts of the rescue, there was a lot of misinformation and just downright bad information being spread by the [...]
Opinion: Let's make tobacco illegal
February 17th 1:42 pm
It was mid-November in 2001, and we had walked into the hospital room that my grandfather was admitted into. He was connected to a couple of different machines that were helping him stay alive.
Opinion: From the Publisher: Kidnapping a wake-up call for all Alaska
February 10th 5:01 pm
This week in Anchorage, a young, 18-year-old girl named Samantha Koenig was kidnapped and abducted from her work in a coffee stand near Alaska Club on Tudor Road.
Opinion: From the editor: Assumptions, info void serve no one
February 10th 4:54 pm
This week I was reminded of a lesson I learned a long time ago, one that I learned the hard way, one about assumptions., especially in the absence of information.
Opinion: From the Publisher: Public involvement will make newspaper better, more relevant
February 3rd 9:39 am
This feels like déjà vu, at least for us it certainly seems like it. Here we are resurrecting a newspaper that stopped printing last August. The new and combined newspaper of The Bristol Bay Times and The Dutch Harbor Fisherman come back into [...]
Opinion: Concern for Ambler mining road
February 3rd 9:35 am
On January 12, 2012, I attended a public meeting in Kotzebue hosted by The Alaska Department of Transportation. I went to see what the plan was related to the proposed road to the Ambler Mining District as well as future roads in the NW Arctic Borough.
February 3rd 9:32 am
This week, while the real Alaska was shivering through the end of a month of record-low temperatures, in the movie world, the state was red hot. Everybody is talking about Alaska these days — from the debut of the movie "Big Miracle" to a [...]
Opinion: Let's work together to bend the corrections cost
February 3rd 9:29 am
You may have seen a lot of news lately about the rising cost of Alaska's corrections system. We have to face the facts: Prisons are incredibly expensive — regardless of where or how they are built. It's time for us to start focusing on why we have had [...]
Opinion: From the Publisher: Petty quarrels dilute purpose of candidate debate
January 27th 1:39 pm
For weeks now my wife has been watching these Republican debates on TV. I can't stand them, although I must admit when I am stuck watching one, they do have some entertainment value.
Opinion: From the Editor: Holistic approach to suicide prevention awe-inspiring
January 27th 1:37 pm
There are times when we all find our work challenging. On Mondays, I typically get a little wide-eyed, staring at the approaching newspaper deadline and knowing that no matter what I have accomplished, I could have done more.
Opinion: Often misunderstood toxic release inventory
January 27th 1:36 pm
Each year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) releases its annual Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) report. The definition of "release" under the inventory is quite broad and is often mischaracterized. I'd like to clarify what the report means [...]
Opinion: From the Publisher: Cooperation key to mission success
January 20th 2:16 am
The Russian Tanker Renda and the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy's icebreaking mission to Nome truly shows the tremendous coordination and teamwork it took for these ships to get to Nome. These two captains and crews had never worked together. They come from [...]
Opinion: From the Editor: How to report on your boss 101 and other adventures in Alaska journalism
January 20th 2:15 am
When I was in journalism school, the instructions were very clear. Never accept anything from a source - not a lift to a baseball game, not a free drink, and certainly not a chance to ride on a C130 all the way to Nome so you can see the historic arrival of [...]
Opinion: Fish Factor: Web site draws attention to importance of sonar in Alaska
January 20th 2:03 am
Most people don't know that 40 years ago, Alaska pioneered the use of sonar to track salmon runs, or that state fishery managers operate 15 sonar sites on 13 rivers from Southeast to the Yukon.
January 20th 2:01 am
As the New Year comes in to Wisconsin and Alaska, in the high Arctic there is always a special feature. On January 23,the sun will return to Barrow skies after an absence of over two months. The last view was back on November 19.
Opinion: From the Publisher: Media attention over icebreaker prompts explanation about Alaska
January 13th 1:02 am
As chairman of the Sitnasuak Native Corporation, I have been directly involved in all of the aspects of the work to get the Russian ice class tanker Renda with its 1.3 million gallons of diesel fuel and gasoline to Nome, Alaska.
Opinion: From the Editor: Icebreakers absolute necessity on many fronts
January 13th 12:57 am
Start digging into the reason the United States' polar icebreaker fleet has dwindled to one small ship and there is little one can do but shake one's head. Like so many issues that require the wheels of government to turn, this one has obviously been shoved [...]
