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Barbara Andrews-Mee, longtime aide to Sen. Ted Stevens, passes

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Barbara Andrews-Mee, who worked for Sen. Ted Stevens for 36 years, has died in Indian Lake Estates, Florida, where she was retired and had...

Homer City Council backs away from ‘resist’ resolution

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'LIVE AND LET LIVE' PRINCIPLES REMAIN The coast is clear: People of all political opinions and social views may enter the town of Homer, where...

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Every Monday, 8,300 Alaskans receive the Must Read Alaska Monday newsletter in their inboxes before 8:30 am Alaska Time. It's always a wild ride...

Homer city council to consider ‘softened’ resolution after blowback

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The Homer City Council will tonight consider Resolution 17-09, but not the original draft of 17-09. Tonight, rather than take on President Donald Trump directly, the council...

Tribal banishments, and the complications of frontier justice

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In 2013, Sand Point residents became increasingly alarmed when a suspected drug dealer kept showing up in town. Whenever the angular stranger disembarked from a plane, young people started...

Squalling women for Planned Parenthood show up, but not in numbers

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Sen. Dan Sullivan had to know it was coming this week. But he probably didn't know how underwhelming the turnout was when Planned Parenthood targeted him...

House Resources, under anti-oil control, squelches industry leader

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FIREWORKS AS GERAN TARR SCOLDS WITNESS An Alaska's State House Resources Committee co-chair, already on the record against oil development, interrupted the testimony of Alaska's spokesperson for the oil...

Teddy Roosevelt didn’t settle for less in Panama; we need that spirit now

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The Rotterdam approaches a set of locks in the Panama Canal in early February. THROUGH THE PANAMA CANAL By WIN GRUENING In my last column, while sailing...

Juneau Assembly to homeless: No trespass-sleeping downtown

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Juneau is home to about 32,000 people, 238 of whom are homeless, according to a recent "point in time" survey. With the homeless population being less than one...
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