NPRA nonsense: Permit decision harms nation’s energy needs
News-Miner editorial U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s reaction Friday to a federal agency’s rejection of a plan by ConocoPhillips to build a bridge to access a portion of the National Petroleum Reserv...
A new approach to tips
Community Perspective Approximately 8,800 Alaskans making minimum wage just got a pay raise. About half earn tips in addition to their hourly wage working in bars, restaurants and hotels. The t...
Priests punished without trial
Community Perspective Part of the $9.6 million settlement between the Diocese of Northern Alaska and the plaintiffs in the sexual abuse case is a provision for the posting of the names, in a ver...
Alaska’s quest: fair oil taxes
Community Perspective Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part perspective piece. The second installment will be published Monday. In December 2009, 15 House Republican lawmakers called ...
Warming facts
Letter to the editor Feb. 7, 2010 To the editor: Nice warm weather we’re having these days. And, personally, I’m all for it. I’ve been in Alaska almost 50 years, and I’m tired of the cold weathe...
Both hands
Letter to the editor Feb. 7, 2010 To the editor: When I took my road test, I was penalized points because my hand was resting on the shifter and both hands were not on the wheel. Hands-free cell...
Veterans forms
Feb. 5, 2010 To the editor: I posted this in the comment section online but thought I had better have it printed. In reference to Mr. Solomon’s letter to the editor of Feb. 2, “Respect,” veterans ...
Moon experiments
Letter to the editor Feb. 6, 2010 To the editor: The moon was bombed on Oct. 9, 2010, in hopes of creating a six-mile high plume of debris to be viewed with telescopes in hopes of finding moistu...
Misinterpreted
Letter to the editor Feb. 4, 2010 To the editor: It has been brought to my attention by no man, but what I believe is God’s voice through his word, that the anti-Christ is alive on this Earth ri...
Hit and run
Letter to the editor Feb. 4, 2010 To the editor: On Feb. 3, just after 11 a.m. I lost a little faith in Fairbanks. I was witness to a very bad accident at the intersection of Trainor Gate and th...
Energy mess
Letter to the editor Feb. 4, 2010 To the editor: Alaska energy resource development politics are, as usual, mired in the swamp of local self-interests or, as I like to call it, “more-for-us-scre...
Kind acts
Letter to the editor Feb. 4, 2010 To the editor: I’d like to say thank you for two separate acts of kindness I have been on the receiving end of in the last couple weeks. First, while traipsing ...