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Federal Grinch: Overreaction destroys holiday cheer in Alaska
The U.S. Postal Service surely had the best of intentions when it decided to stop distributing letters to Santa Claus to volunteers who would answer them. The decision, however, is an overreaction...
The U.S. Postal Service surely had the best of intentions when it decided to stop distributing letters to Santa Claus to volunteers who would answer them. The decision, however, is an overreaction...
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Federal sanctions
Fairbanks is facing federal sanctions to include the loss of highway funding for its so-called air quality. This amounts to nothing more than blackmail by the government. They compare us to cities...
Fairbanks is facing federal sanctions to include the loss of highway funding for its so-called air quality. This amounts to nothing more than blackmail by the government. They compare us to cities...
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Partisanship
I am disappointed with Gov. Parnell for showing his lack of respect for the president of the United States by failing to attend a speech by the president at Elmendorf Air Force Base. I am saddened...
I am disappointed with Gov. Parnell for showing his lack of respect for the president of the United States by failing to attend a speech by the president at Elmendorf Air Force Base. I am saddened...
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Accept Jesus
Dear reader, I am writing this letter because there is something very important you should know. It determines where you will live, forever. Heaven is a real place where the streets are paved with...
Dear reader, I am writing this letter because there is something very important you should know. It determines where you will live, forever. Heaven is a real place where the streets are paved with...
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Community Perspectives
Federal sanctions
Fairbanks is facing federal sanctions to include the loss of highway funding for its so-called air quality. This amounts to nothing more than blackmail by the government. They compare us to cities...
Fairbanks is facing federal sanctions to include the loss of highway funding for its so-called air quality. This amounts to nothing more than blackmail by the government. They compare us to cities...
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Partisanship
I am disappointed with Gov. Parnell for showing his lack of respect for the president of the United States by failing to attend a speech by the president at Elmendorf Air Force Base. I am saddened...
I am disappointed with Gov. Parnell for showing his lack of respect for the president of the United States by failing to attend a speech by the president at Elmendorf Air Force Base. I am saddened...
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Accept Jesus
Dear reader, I am writing this letter because there is something very important you should know. It determines where you will live, forever. Heaven is a real place where the streets are paved with...
Dear reader, I am writing this letter because there is something very important you should know. It determines where you will live, forever. Heaven is a real place where the streets are paved with...
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Our public libraries won’t fade away
Last Sunday’s Anchorage Daily News ran a front-page article about the severe budget cuts threatening the Anchorage public library system’s existence. The article (online title: “Are local librarie...
Last Sunday’s Anchorage Daily News ran a front-page article about the severe budget cuts threatening the Anchorage public library system’s existence. The article (online title: “Are local librarie...
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No charges for ‘protest’ fishermen?
I am appalled that the state and the federal governments are not pressing charges against the so-called “protest” fishermen on the Yukon River. Their opprobrious behavior has been rewarded by stat...
I am appalled that the state and the federal governments are not pressing charges against the so-called “protest” fishermen on the Yukon River. Their opprobrious behavior has been rewarded by stat...
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Letters to the Editor
Enough already
Nov. 17, 2009 To the editor: Enough already. I think we have about had enough of Ms. Sarah in the Daily News-Miner. Maybe you’re getting a cut of her book profits? I’m sure there is enough local n...
Nov. 17, 2009 To the editor: Enough already. I think we have about had enough of Ms. Sarah in the Daily News-Miner. Maybe you’re getting a cut of her book profits? I’m sure there is enough local n...
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Applaud Parnell
Nov. 17, 2009 To the editor: Applause for Gov. Parnell. Even in this cold weather, my hat is off to our governor for honoring his long-scheduled commitment to speak at the Associated General Contr...
Nov. 17, 2009 To the editor: Applause for Gov. Parnell. Even in this cold weather, my hat is off to our governor for honoring his long-scheduled commitment to speak at the Associated General Contr...
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Rifle team
Nov. 16, 2009 To the editor: I have a bone to pick with our local media, the Daily News-Miner included. To my knowledge the Nanooks rifle team is the only national college championship team we hav...
Nov. 16, 2009 To the editor: I have a bone to pick with our local media, the Daily News-Miner included. To my knowledge the Nanooks rifle team is the only national college championship team we hav...
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World stage
Nov. 16, 2009 To the editor: It’s too bad that the captured al-Qaeda terrorists that perpetrated the Sept. 11 attacks were not Mirandized, nor afforded other American criminal rights, since the Ob...
Nov. 16, 2009 To the editor: It’s too bad that the captured al-Qaeda terrorists that perpetrated the Sept. 11 attacks were not Mirandized, nor afforded other American criminal rights, since the Ob...
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Irresponsible
Nov. 16, 2009 To the editor: The recent U.S. House vote on passage of the health care bill was a disappointment. It is a bill full of new taxes and mandates, with the so-called goal of targeting t...
Nov. 16, 2009 To the editor: The recent U.S. House vote on passage of the health care bill was a disappointment. It is a bill full of new taxes and mandates, with the so-called goal of targeting t...
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Appreciated
When people think of schools, the first thing they think of is teachers. But schools wouldn’t be able to open their doors or serve a single student if it wasn’t for the more than 600 education sup...
When people think of schools, the first thing they think of is teachers. But schools wouldn’t be able to open their doors or serve a single student if it wasn’t for the more than 600 education sup...
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Federal sanctions
Fairbanks is facing federal sanctions to include the loss of highway funding for its so-called air quality. This amounts to nothing more than blackmail by the government. They compare us to cities...
Fairbanks is facing federal sanctions to include the loss of highway funding for its so-called air quality. This amounts to nothing more than blackmail by the government. They compare us to cities...
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Partisanship
I am disappointed with Gov. Parnell for showing his lack of respect for the president of the United States by failing to attend a speech by the president at Elmendorf Air Force Base. I am saddened...
I am disappointed with Gov. Parnell for showing his lack of respect for the president of the United States by failing to attend a speech by the president at Elmendorf Air Force Base. I am saddened...
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