It was with great sadness that I read about the fire that destroyed the house I built on Basin Road in 1980. I built it… Continue reading
Dear Editor, As a result of the Affordable Care Act, the number of insured in Alaska has gone up 25 percent. That translates to a… Continue reading
This editorial first appeared in the Peninsula Clarion: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski took a political stance last week which may prove unpopular with some, but… Continue reading
Alaska lawmakers should celebrate their landmark successful criminal justice overhaul last year. In July 2016, Gov. Bill Walker signed Senate Bill 91 into law, a… Continue reading
I would like to publicly thank U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski for standing up for the future of Alaska’s children and their public school education by… Continue reading
This is a time of change in Alaska, a direct result of the incontrovertible fact that we are facing the gravest budget crisis in the… Continue reading
For the third time, Juneau is wasting your tax dollars and their time trying to annex more remote land like Funter Bay and Horse and… Continue reading
Dear Editor, What is barely mentioned in Gov. Bill Walker’s budget this year? Are Alaskans paying attention? We the people need to galvanize senators and… Continue reading
Thoughts of the use of the word snowflake or snowflakes in our current political climate brought my thinking to an article published in the Juneau… Continue reading
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than ... to live in the gray twilight… Continue reading
It is well known that our state of Alaska is in a fiscal crisis. Real solutions are needed. I agree with the position that the… Continue reading
Bob Gillam’s daily anti-income tax ads in the paper got me thinking. Denmark, Norway and Iceland have fairly high taxes, but they also have universal… Continue reading
This editorial first appeared in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner: Lawmakers are wise to listen to their constituents, and at the beginning of this year’s legislative… Continue reading
How very special U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski is to shop for new office space and to acquire the office space of the late Sen. Ted… Continue reading
In response to “Harbor Department Gives Juneau Live-aboards an Ultimatum: Move out, or Move On”: I moved into Aurora Harbor on my sailboat in August… Continue reading
In 2013, after a three month bicycle tour in Southeast Asia, my girlfriend Mary Catharine flew back to the U.S. from southern Thailand. I had… Continue reading
President Trump says his sweeping executive order on immigration was meant to make America safer. Yet this ill-conceived plan, with its slap-dash implementation and failure… Continue reading
After hearing news stories that Sen. Lisa Murkowski received campaign contributions from Betsy DeVos, I decided to head down to one of her Alaska offices… Continue reading
The following editorial first appeared in the Augusta Chronicle: “Our immigration system has been broken for decades, and the president is doing his job to… Continue reading
WASHINGTON — The newest occupant of the White House is a psychiatrist’s dream — a serial prevaricator who shuns the truth for his own version… Continue reading