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Making roads safer is expensive, but it doesn’t hold a candle to the cost of our community having to bury more than a dozen of its own members each year because we made the wrong choices.
With structural fiscal issues that have yet to be addressed, Alaska can’t afford to miss out on federal funds that should by all rights be a slam dunk.
Several factors have left Alaska uniquely vulnerable to the disease, which can be deadly for infants and small children.
We all have a part to play in combating homelessness in Anchorage. Consider what your best contribution to the issue can be.
We can’t put the smartphone genie back in the bottle. But we can limit its negative effects on kids and their education.
Alaska has unintentionally removed most of the stakes and necessity of contests prior to the November general election.
More so than perhaps any of the prior shootings this summer, Easter Leafa’s case raises a host of disturbing questions that police have yet to fully answer.
If we keep wasting time, we’ll find ourselves in 2050, wondering where Alaska’s “good old days” went — and realizing they may be gone for good.
Gov. Mike Dunleavy can be the governor who spent eight years blaming others while the ship of state foundered on the fiscal shoals, or he can spend the next two years leading from the front.
Some say a good compromise leaves no one satisfied. By that metric, the hydro power plan for the Eklutna Dam may be the most successful compromise in Anchorage in many years.
Gov. Dunleavy’s blood bank veto, though small, is unlikely to make a meaningful savings difference for the state and could have serious negative effects on Alaska’s blood supply in a worst-case scenario.
Anchorage has been down the road of body-camera transparency promises before, and in many instances the reality of implementation has fallen far short of the initial vision.
The best time to act on mitigating fire risk in Anchorage was decades ago; the second-best time is now.
How do we fix this legal conundrum? The answer is unorthodox but relatively simple.
Alaska can neither afford to declare the act a success and immediately shift focus to other areas, nor should it kneecap the law before its effect can be properly measured.