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Opinion: As job vacancies linger, businesses need unemployment insurance reform

Both employers and workers deserve reforms to the unemployment system.

  • Mar 15, 2022
  • By Jeff Garness
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Opinion: Carbon footprint series hits tech snag, but video is available

Next event is March 23.

  • Mar 14, 2022
  • By Linda Kruger
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Opinion: Investing in clean energy is key to true energy independence

War in Ukraine intensifies the urgent need to end the era of global conflict over fossil fuels…

  • Mar 14, 2022
  • By Kay Brown and Kate Troll
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Opinion: Choosing Ukrainian aid over energy relief

I’ve got two problems with the energy check proposal.

  • Mar 12, 2022
  • By Rich Moniak
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(Peter Segall / Juneau Empire File)

Opinion: Sovereignty in the Digital Age

What is the risk of exempting Turo from taxation?

  • Mar 11, 2022
(Peter Segall / Juneau Empire File)
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Opinion: Oil, gas and the winds of war

The war in Ukraine is a grim reminder of how dependent we’ve become on fossil fuels.

  • Mar 11, 2022
  • By Doug Woodby
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Nancy Keen, right, Vivian Mork, Marvin Willard and Rosita Worl, left, protest outside the Dimond Courthouse as a court hearing between the Sitka Tribe of Alaska and the Department of Fish and Game on herring limits in Sitka Sound takes place inside on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2019. (Michael Penn / Juneau Empire File)

Opinion: Return stewardship of the herring to the people of Sheet’ka Kwaan

Once the herring are gone, they’re gone.

  • Mar 10, 2022
  • By K’asheetchlaa Louise Brady
Nancy Keen, right, Vivian Mork, Marvin Willard and Rosita Worl, left, protest outside the Dimond Courthouse as a court hearing between the Sitka Tribe of Alaska and the Department of Fish and Game on herring limits in Sitka Sound takes place inside on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2019. (Michael Penn / Juneau Empire File)
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski speaks to the Alaska State Legislature in February. (Peter Segall / Juneau Empire file)

Opinion: I’m a longtime Democrat ready to support a Republican senator

She is willing to act in the interest of the country rather than marching lockstep with her party.

  • Mar 8, 2022
  • By Rodger Painter
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski speaks to the Alaska State Legislature in February. (Peter Segall / Juneau Empire file)
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Opinion: Russian saying offers insight into invasion of Ukraine

“Beat your friends, so your enemies will be scared of you.”

  • Mar 8, 2022
  • By Alexander B. Dolitsky
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Opinion: I’d take Babcock over Walker any day

“In the end, Walker is remembered by many for to many poor decisions…”

  • Mar 7, 2022
  • By Dan Carothers
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Opinion: Officials hide behind heartless rules while Ukraine burns

War is not politics.

  • Mar 4, 2022
  • By Rich Moniak
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(Ben Hohenstatt / Juneau Empire File)

Opinion: Bill would unfairly tax residents who use peer-to-peer car sharing platforms

Before it’s too late, I, along with the residents of Alaska, demand HB 90 be stopped.

  • Mar 4, 2022
  • By Thomas R. Daly
(Ben Hohenstatt / Juneau Empire File)
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Opnion: Cruise ships in Alaska need Ocean Rangers on deck

We all care about protecting our beautiful state and its resources

  • Mar 4, 2022
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The USCGC Healy, the Coast Guard’s only medium icebreaker, lies moored to the pier in Juneau as it returns to Seattle at the end of deployment, Oct. 27, 2019. (Michael S. Lockett / Juneau Empire File)

Opinion: Russian ‘invasion’ of the Arctic Basin is a big problem

What Putin did in the Ukraine is only the beginning of his quest for power and territory.

  • Mar 3, 2022
  • By James Fritz
The USCGC Healy, the Coast Guard’s only medium icebreaker, lies moored to the pier in Juneau as it returns to Seattle at the end of deployment, Oct. 27, 2019. (Michael S. Lockett / Juneau Empire File)
Eaglecrest Ski Area is seeking to purchase a gondola system from an Austrian ski area to expand their summer operations. (Screenshot)

Opinion: Eaglecrest Ski Area takes a step toward self-support

A huge step on the road to Eaglecrest’s self-sufficiency.

  • Mar 3, 2022
  • By Win Gruening
Eaglecrest Ski Area is seeking to purchase a gondola system from an Austrian ski area to expand their summer operations. (Screenshot)
(Ben Hohenstatt / Juneau Empire File)

Opinion: A ‘constitutionalized’ PFD would be welcome, but Judicial Council is more troubling

Lately, the radical left has become quite worried about the so-called “con-con.”

  • Mar 2, 2022
  • By Bob Bird
(Ben Hohenstatt / Juneau Empire File)
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Opinion: CBJ Assembly can choose to help us out

A large savings account of taxpayer money should be difficult for an elected official to justify.

  • Mar 2, 2022
  • By Jerry Nankervis
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Opinion: Ukraine and the American divide that Putin inflamed

Those using aggression to divide are playing into Putin’s hand.

  • Mar 1, 2022
  • By Rich Moniak
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Opinion: If diplomacy is not enough

Diplomacy did not save Tibet, it did not save Hong Kong, it has not saved Ukraine.

  • Feb 28, 2022
  • By Andrew Wells
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Faith Myers stands at the doors of API. (Courtesy Photo)

Opinion: It’s time for the Legislature to pass laws to protect psychiatric patients

The whole state should be concerned by reports of inadequate psychiatric patient care

  • Feb 28, 2022
  • By Faith J. Myers
Faith Myers stands at the doors of API. (Courtesy Photo)