Fairbanks Daily News-Miner editorial The borough is reviewing a few more non-regulatory options to improve the air quality in Fairbanks. Contracting for a few wood-drying kilns is worth more inve…
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San Bernardino, a southern California city of more than 200,000, recently declared bankruptcy. Municipal bankruptcies are rare, but not unprecedented. Vallejo, Calif., in the San Francisco Bay area, for instance, filed for bankruptcy protection in May 2008. Jefferson County, Ala., sought bankruptcy protection in November 2011. And Stockton, Calif., population 300,000, filed for bankruptcy on [...]
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Thanksgiving. It’s not a holiday that gets much thought while we’re celebrating the Summer Solstice, but many folks like to use the break for a myriad of reasons out side of stuffing themselves silly with turkey. Some like to visit family. Some plan shopping trips to take advantage of day-after sales. Others take advantage of [...]
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Sunday marks the 40th anniversary of the Watergate break-in, which triggered the scandal that Watergate historian Stanley Kutler has rightly called “the most significant constitutional challenge in this country since the Civil War.” This milestone merits a mention, if only because so many in this amnesiac nation are probably hazy or clueless about the war [...]
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Latinos are becoming a decisive voting bloc, but neither President Obama nor challenger Mitt Romney has a great record on a defining issue for them — immigration. read more
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Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Alaska Native health care corporations have reached a common sense agreement with federal officials that should soon allow military veterans to receive medical care mo…
The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times: It’s usually difficult to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a campaign contribution influenced a public official to take an official action. That’s why other ways to limit the influence of money in politics, such as disclosure rules and limits on contributions, are so important. But [...]
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Our friends and neighbors work at the Hecla Greens Creek Mine on Admiralty Island. Each work day they make the long commute, put in a hard shift, and return to our community to spend wages, raise families, volunteer in the community, pay taxes, and enjoy the life to which we have all become accustomed. Right [...]
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