Guest Editorial

The senator is a hard worker who does her homework. She looks for compromises, albeit frustrating both sides of the political aisle who would prefer she not compromise on what they don’t like.

She has been effective at winning support in Congress for a long list of Alaska projects and programs over her more than 22 years in the U.S. Senate.

But no matter how much Sen. Lisa Murkowski has succeeded in the past, that list looks small when measured against the fights she is now waging in Washington, D.C.

The senator is trying to convince her colleagues that public broadcasting is worth saving, par...