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Emergency need: Don’t wait for Legislature to hire Eielson consultant
Editorial The proposed transfer of F-16 jets from Eielson Air Force Base to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson is a matter of grave concern to Interior Alaska. The state should have acted already ...
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Grenade hit: Murkowski doesn’t deserve conflict of interest innuendo
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner editorial Sometimes a glance at a map is worth more than any number of words. The Washington Post on Tuesday dedicated 81 words to the fact that Sen. Lisa Murkowski, ...
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Progress, maybe: Healy power plant permit moves one step forward
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner editorial The state’s decision last week to grant an air quality permit to restart the Healy Clean Coal Plant was an encouraging step toward eventually reducing the el...
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Economic unity with Canada
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner editorial Editor’s note: The idea of Canada and the United States forming a relatively free trade zone began long ago, as noted in this editorial from the Feb. 27, 196...
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Dangerous claim: Do all corporations lack rights to free speech?
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner editorial “A corporation is not a person,” according to a common rallying cry recently given voice in Alaska as a bill before the Legislature. No rational person could...
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Questing onward: Sled dog race draws mushers and fans alike
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner editorial FAIRBANKS — The Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race will launch at 11 a.m. today when the first of two dozen mushers leaves downtown Fairbanks on the Che...
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Cut the ties: Alaska should divest itself of business links to Iran
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner editorial Having the Alaska Permanent Fund and other state-run entities divest themselves of investments in companies that do business in Iran is the right choice. It’...
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Another vote: House committee advances another ANWR-opening bill
Editorial The United States runs on oil. It will run on oil for a long time to come, including while we are looking to increase the amount of energy that comes from other sources. That is why A...
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Enough now: Demise of extreme cold is welcome development
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner editorial Many people in Fairbanks take a certain perverse pride in cold weather. But even many who subscribe to that strange sentiment must be cheered by the weather ...
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Ice free: Coast Guard cutter and tanker reach open water
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner editorial The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Healy and the Russian tanker Renda entered ice-free waters in the southern Bering Sea on Sunday afternoon, according to news repo...
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Community Perspectives
Mentoring creates success: Evaluation report quantifies effects
Community perspective Ask successful people if they had a mentor in their lives, and you’ll probably get a resounding “yes” — and often a response that several mentors contributed to their succe...
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An unfortunate mission change
Community perspective Earlier this month, Department of Natural Resources employees received an email from a deputy commissioner saying that their mission statement had been changed. The old one...
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Alaska must build engineers: STEM the tide of top students exiting the state
Community perspective The engineering profession is directly tied to the generation of income. For example, every construction project for new development or infrastructure depends upon engineer...
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Alaska film industry develops
Community Perspective Creating new private sector jobs, economic development and unique educational opportunities — this is exactly what the growing film industry here in Alaska is doing. My bu...
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Propane, a bridge to gas: Obtaining 'wasted' product from Slope could be the key
Community perspective Harold Heinze, the outgoing CEO of the Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority, says that there is an abundance of propane on the North Slope readily available for use. Ad...
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Say goodbye to ag research: Scientists developed plants and processes for Alaska's people
Community perspective When the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service closes in Alaska in the near future it won’t mean just the loss of federal jobs; the door will shut ...
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Soldiers make us proud: Troops should come home in 2014 — or sooner
Community Perspective With nearly one in 10 troops in Afghanistan hailing from Alaska-based units, I spent the recent Martin Luther King Day weekend traveling throughout the country. My mission:...
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Alaska missing out on oil boom: Profits must be reinvested here to boost output
FAIRBANKS — There’s an oil boom underway in this country, and Alaska is not participating. We have the resources. But part of Alaska’s oil tax system keeps us from competing for the right investm...
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Borough builds useless regulations: Proposed new subdivision rules aren’t needed
FAIRBANKS — Title reviews are a funny thing. You would think the goal would be to make government more efficient and less intrusive, cutting out all the excess of a title and making it a tight docu...
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Changing the conversation: Temper the vilification in Congress
Our country is facing serious challenges that continue to be left unresolved. Stalemates on issues from energy independence to wholesale tax reform to getting our economy on a sound footing threate...
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Letters to the Editor
Local food
Letter to the editor Feb. 4, 2012 To the editor: An historic, disturbing trend is accelerating in poor nations worldwide, where multinational corporations from wealthy nations are buying up ag...
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65 below humor
Letter to the editor Feb. 4, 2012 To the editor: Here are excerpts from the winter of 1968. I have lived in Alaska since then. This was my first and coldest Fairbanks winter.   Hilariously f...
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Economic pain
Letter to the editor Feb. 3, 2012 To the editor: I am interested in the message of the Occupy Wall Street movement and want to express support for the folks in Fairbanks joining with them. I ...
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Perpetuating crime
Letter to the editor Feb. 2, 2012 To the editor: I read Matt Buxton’s article (Jan. 26), “Lawmakers seek to cut crime, costs,” with interest. More interest than most, because I am a high schoo...
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Boot tax
Letter to the editor Feb. 2, 2012 To the editor:  I have some questions about the proposed borough vehicle tax and its effect on property taxes: Since there are presumably more vehicle owners ...
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Trade-offs
Letter to the editor Feb. 2, 2012 To the editor: Dermot Cole is gifted in explaining complex issues in more easily understood terms, as he did again in his Jan. 23 column detailing how the sta...
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Nonsense
Letter to the editor Feb. 3, 2012 To the editor: In his community perspective column of Jan. 27, Alaska Commissioner of Revenue Bryan Butcher continues to promote the Parnell administration’s ...
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UAF pay
Letter to the editor Feb. 3, 2012 To the editor: The student-run Sun Star newspaper at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has built a salary database from public sources. Now anyone can find o...
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