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Assessing Pebble: EPA’s document doesn’t justify ending the process
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner editorial It’s not surprising that the Environmental Protection Agency has concluded that development of the Pebble mine in Southwest Alaska could harm the salmon fish...
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Nonprofit help: Community foundation idea deserves support
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner editorial Mark May 30 on your calendar for an important series of public meetings at the Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitors Center and the Noel Wien Library. There...
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Hold on: Air Force seems to have moved too fast on F-16s
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner editorial President Obama recently nominated Gen. Mark A. Welsh III to be the next chief of staff of the Air Force. The nomination might not get far. That’s because ...
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Law of the Sea: U.S. should approve treaty
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner editorial The U.S. Senate is again poised to take up the proposed Law of the Sea treaty, which has languished for 30 years. It remains a missing piece in the puzzle of...
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We’re No. 3!: Alaska’s falling oil output is nothing to cheer
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner editorial Sure, it’s just numbers and a ranking. Who cares that Alaska has fallen behind North Dakota on the list of states producing the most barrels of oil per day? ...
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Tis the season: Bicycles are an option for cheap transportation
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner editorial Outside the winter season, Fairbanks is one of the better places in the world to ride a bicycle. The weather and celestial mechanics during the past month ha...
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Ups and downs
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner editorial THUMBS UP: The Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly, in its final budget meeting Thursday, restored $64,000 it had earlier proposed to cut from the mayor’s...
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Power up: Healy plant's air permit shouldn't be an issue
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner editorial The “new” coal-fired power plant in Healy remains needlessly plagued by uncertainty concerning its air quality permit, even as the plant’s restart grows clos...
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S.T.O.M.P. today: Parade will fill downtown with marchers and onlookers
Editorial A parade unlike any ever seen in Fairbanks should wind through the downtown streets this morning beginning at 10 a.m. The Salute To Our Military Parade — S.T.O.M.P. — will feature vet...
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Reasonable offer: U.S. Postal Service pitches reduced hours
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner editorial A cutback in service hours at Alaska’s rural post offices would be a much better way for the U.S. Postal Service to save money than complete closures would b...
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Community Perspectives
Oil reserve has park qualities: Tell NPR-A managers to protect wilderness
Community perspective As Shell Oil sends its ships to the Arctic, there is mounting pressure on the Obama administration to halt offshore drilling operations in this high-risk environment. There...
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Time to curtail halibut bycatch: We can't continue to waste our fish
Community perspective If you fish for and eat halibut and want to continue to do so, here’s your chance to prove it. After years of study and foot-dragging, the North Pacific Fishery Management...
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A complex in context
Community perspective The Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex encompasses in excess of 100,000 square land, air and sea miles. A recently released draft environmental impact statement by the Depa...
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Bike to work for health and save energy
Community perspective The world market controls the price of oil, the federal government controls health care, multi-national corporations control most everything else. You control how you get t...
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Obstacles to rural dental care: State dental board stymies free care in remote villages
A team of volunteers from New York University traveled to two Interior villages last year and provided 120 dental treatment visits during five days. They set their patients on a path to better oral...
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This isn't what 'green' means: Susitna dam has drawbacks
Community perspective The prospect of renewable energy holds such promise: a future free of carbons, oil and pollution. Whether you believe in global warming or not, clean air, clean water and h...
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When does the drink take the man?: Biology plays a big part in alcoholism
Community Perspective When my three children were growing up, alcohol was never an issue. Young Jewish children usually get their first taste of wine during Passover. (Jews celebrating a Passove...
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Aches, pains and oil taxes: The weaknesses in governor's plan were coming out
Community perspective The legislative special session ended early, saving Alaska from misguided petroleum legislation. Conflicting information on oil and gas revenue issues confounded deliberati...
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Building alternatives for seniors: Nonprofit group offers new kind of retirement home
Community perspective We oldsters like to bore the younger generations by holding forth on how much better things were in the old days. But many things are truly better now, and one of them is h...
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Conduct code drew fire: UA employees were angered by policy draft
Community perspective He sure walked that back fast. On April 2, Patrick Gamble, the University of Alaska’s relatively new president (2010) proposed a “code of conduct” for UA employees to be e...
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Letters to the Editor
Unfair charges
May 15, 2012 To the editor: Chris Case and I met in our first year apprenticeship class, Local 375. As soon as I met Chris, I knew we would be lifelong friends. Chris is one of the best men I hav...
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P.E. needed
May 15, 2012 To the editor: I am writing to express my disappointment in the decision of the school district administration to cut physical educator positions in our local schools. Eliminating th...
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Trash solutions
Letter to the Editor May 16, 2012 To the editor: In response to letter “Trash offenses” (Letters, May 13): If someone were to press the borough and city to develop a good recycling program, it...
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Re-elect Merdes
Letter to the Editor May 16, 2012 To the editor: Being on the board of directors at Golden Valley Electric Association is a not a financially rewarding venture for any of the directors. It tak...
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Feeding flames
Letter to the Editor May 15, 2012 To the editor: Hurray for liberalism. It’s sure nice to see the cover of the May 21 Time magazine and know we’ve come this far in our brave new society. What...
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Great event
Letters to the Editor May 14, 2012 To the editor: I just wanted to thank all the folks who made the 22nd annual Outdoor Days so much fun on the West Ridge of the University of Alaska Fairbanks...
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Off the roads
Letter to the editor May 14, 2012 To the editor: This letter is being written in response to the comment made by Edna Hancock upon being sentenced for driving under the influence, which result...
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Local is best
Letter to the editor May 14, 2012 To the editor: Would you consider dispensing with your syndicated columnists and instead devoting your editorial page to local writers in its entirety? It wou...
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