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Guest Editorial: Hungry Alaskans deserve better
The director of the state agency that manages the food stamp program for tens of thousands of Alaskans says the staff is again overwhelmed with work,...
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Please let all the children have a Christmas To the Editor: I’m writing this letter because The Salvation Army cut-off age is 13 years old for C...
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Clear-cut logging To the Editor: I thank Mike Schwartz for his thoughtful letter to the Editor regarding the Landless Native bill in last week’s P...
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To Whom It May Concern To the Editor: I am 82 years old now. My great-grandchildren are seventh generation of family residents growing up in...
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Clear Answers to our Petersburg Medical Center, Part 1 To the Editor: Like many in Petersburg, I didn’t understand specifically why we needed a new f...
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Thank you To the Editor: Thank you to Hammer & Wikan for re-establishing the footpath from the grocery store to the post office. Right now, the path i...
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Local support makes VSC auction a huge success To the Editor: Viking Swim Club would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to our wonderful...
Guest Editorial: The governor owes Alaskans an apology
Unconscionable. Indefensible. There are many words to describe the disrespect for the public and disregard for honest government by the actions of the...
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What is wrong with the PMC buildings? To the Editor: Part 2 continued from last week. My understanding of the 2015, 50-page architectural report. I...
Guest Editorial: Alaska's gas line dream is out of alignment
Alaska officials who say the stars are aligned for the long-dreamt, long-on-the-odds multibillion-dollar North Slope natural gas project are...
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What is wrong with the PMC buildings? To the Editor: After reviewing the 50-page 2015 architectural report and visiting with the current Petersburg...
Guest Editorial: Remembering a moment of sharing religions
Jews in Israel and Palestinians in Gaza are embroiled in the deadliest fighting in decades, prompted by an organized assault by Hamas soldiers who...
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Thanks Jeff! To the Editor: With the election over, I’d like to take this opportunity to publicly thank Jeff Meucci for his many years of service t...
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Negative stereotype To the Editor: In the spirit of free enterprise, Sig and Ambre Burrell are trying to address the demand for affordable housing in...
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Do we really need a new hospital? To the Editor: When I first heard about the hospital project, like many of you, I had a lot of questions. Do we...
Guest Commentary: Traveling the Alaska way
The night before my team and I were scheduled to fly from Juneau to Haines on Seaplanes with the U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg, I...
Guest Editorial
When I was much younger, hallucinations were an affliction of college students who figured drug-assisted education was the answer to life — or at l...
Funding our public schools
In the middle school where I teach, it’s now commonplace to have two or three classes report to the gym each day where they play basketball, read b...
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Thanks for the ice To the Editor: Not that I am a spokesperson, but on behalf of the sports and subsistence fishing fleet I would like to extend a...
Guest Editorial: Governor should help get the work done
Employers everywhere are finding it hard to recruit and retain employees. But it sure seems that the state of Alaska, under the disengaged leadership...
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A Man for All Seasons To the Editor: Mr. Paul Bowen was a man for all seasons: the fishing season, the election season, the basketball season, the...
Guest Editorial: Supply and demand matters greatly to Alaska
Oil and water don’t mix. We learned that in high school. And we learned it again when water got into a heating fuel line. In Alaska, oil and salmon d...
Commentary: Bristol Bay Fishermen pay the price for recent record salmon runs
Early in the season, one of my deckhands started the joke, “Pay to Bay,” dreaming of people paying money to fish on a drift boat in Bristol Bay, lik... Full story
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Let’s think long-term about the Petersburg emergency services To the Editor: Let’s think long-term about the Petersburg emergency services. Str...
Editorial: Basinger sails home
This week the Pilot bids a bittersweet farewell to our top-notch full-time news reporter Chris Basinger. We wish him well as he leaves on Sunday’s f...