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LETTER: Vice president can???t deflect from war???s costs
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (229+ words) LETTER: Vice president can’t deflect from war’s costs Juneau Empire LETTER: Vice president can’t deflect from war’s costs Published 11:30 am Saturday, September 12, 2026 Vice President Vance took a page directly from Vladimir Putin’s playbook when he said “I wouldn’t call it…...
OPINION: The form that takes away your health care
1+ week, 1+ hour ago (654+ words) Published 3:30 am Monday, September 7, 2026 Dan Sullivan and Nick Begich voted to make Medicaid coverage conditional on proving, month after month, that a recipient has met a government work requirement. Beginning in 2027, under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, certain adults…...
OPINION: The DHS blank check: Sullivan and Begich owe Alaskans an accounting
1+ week, 5+ day ago (463+ words) Published 1:30 am Wednesday, September 2, 2026 Senator Dan Sullivan and Representative Nick Begich have given Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security billions of taxpayer dollars while demanding too few answers about how it is spent. The spending trail is impossible to ignore....
OPINION: Everyone will pay for federal debt because everyone benefitted
1+ week, 6+ day ago (388+ words) Published 1:30 am Tuesday, September 1, 2026 Compared to federal spending, the average American is downright frugal. The federal debt is now at $40 trillion, doubled from 10 years ago. If you add up all the credit card debt, car and truck loans and home…...
OPINION: When the deportation machine turns inward
2+ week, 2+ day ago (695+ words) Published 3:30 am Saturday, August 29, 2026 Stephen Miller is not merely expanding ICE; he is helping build a federal enforcement machine while teaching it to see political dissent through the lens of national security. That should frighten Americans of every political persuasion…...
Hearings scheduled on removal on roadless restrictions for Tongass
2+ week, 5+ day ago (210+ words) Published 1:30 am Wednesday, August 26, 2026 By Juneau Empire Staff The Forest Sevice will hold several hearings in September over the controversial decision to remove protections in the Tongass National Forest. On Aug. 18, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that it has filed…...
OPINION: Sullivan, Trump and the price of political loyalty
3+ week, 1+ day ago (545+ words) Published 5:30 am Saturday, August 22, 2026 Dan Sullivan has hitched Alaska’s political wagon to Donald Trump as Trump’s presidency is showing its deepest cracks. Trump’s approval rating has fallen to 33 percent, the lowest of his presidency, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll…...
Groups look to hit the brakes on removal of roadless restrictions for Tongass
3+ week, 2+ day ago (626+ words) Published 4:30 am Saturday, August 22, 2026 A hiker explores the Tongass National Forest. Municipalities, conservation groups, and tribes are criticizing pubic process and calling for continued protections for irreplaceable old-growth forests after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) moved to rescind the Roadless…...
Peltola tops ballot in Alaska Senate primary
3+ week, 4+ day ago (147+ words) Published 6:30 am Wednesday, August 19, 2026 By Juneau Empire Staff Tuesday night’s primary results show an interesting election shaping up for Alaska in November. Incumbent Democratic Rep. Andi Story secured 69.84 percent of the vote (2,848) to top House District 3 ahead of Republican Annette…...
LETTER: Why I vote Democratic
3+ week, 5+ day ago (241+ words) Published 1:30 am Wednesday, August 19, 2026 The first time I ever voted, I chose all Republican candidates. Growing up, I was deeply influenced by my conservative (and loving) grandfather. However, the Republican Party in those years was very different from the party…...