Juneau Independent

Drilling a tunnel into Suicide Basin would drain it from below. But how about draining it from the top?

At the Assembly’s recent budget hearings, person after person stood up to testify in defense of the pools, the field house, the programs that make Juneau the kind of place people stay. I don’t fault them for that and understand why those programs are so important. But not one of those speakers mentioned the flood.

As I write this the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, with no prospect of reopening anytime soon. The result, with a roughly 60-day time lag as the last tankers from the Middle East are emptied and refineries and governments draw down reserves, is growing into the biggest energy shock in the history of industrial civilisation.

Hilcorp, in acquiring BP’s Alaska assets, follows a record of cooperation with our state government that by working together each will formulate a tax solution that will be instrumental in the continued development of Alaska’s energy industry.

Bartlett Regional Hospital (BRH) is an excellent small city community hospital with an emergency department staffed by emergency medicine physicians, and surgeons and other specialists available on relatively short notice; state-of-the-art diagnostic services; quality intensive care and medical surgical units; qualified physicians and nurses and other specially trained staff; outpatient and inpatient surgical units; and cancer treatment and infusion programs.

The explanation Gov. Mike Dunleavy gave for vetoing SB 64 is it “may present legal concerns” and “would impose significant operational burdens on the administration of Alaska's elections during an election year in which several statewide contests will occur.”

From Metlakatla to Unalaska, maritime industries are not just part of our economy, they are the economy. Commercial fishing, mariculture, charter fishing, vessel repair, seafood processing, research and marine transportation support thousands of jobs and sustain communities that depend on the working waterfront.

Ray Bradbury’s novel "Fahrenheit 451" is set in a near-future American city where mass entertainment, constant noise, and shallow media have replaced reading, reflection, and meaningful conversation, and where owning books is a serious crime.

Juneau is facing some serious challenges and unfortunately it is bringing out the worst in some folks. While we should be worrying about our flooding in the valley, our seasonal economy, our housing shortage, and our outmigration of the younger generation, instead we are milling about and shouting that the sky is falling due to the perceived budget shortfall.

I don’t believe the proposed multi-multibillion-dollar Alaska North Slope gas project will be built. It’s too expensive.

The surging price of gas caused by the war with Iran has become an inextricable problem for President Donald Trump. On Wednesday he reverted to insults. “Iran can’t get their act together,” he wrote in a social media post. “They don’t know how to sign a nonnuclear deal. They better get smart soon!”

A new effort to force states to affirm the Trump administration’s views on DEI, transgender athletes and immigration when signing contracts with the U.S. Forest Service is threatening millions of dollars in wildfire grant funding and fire reduction projects on federal lands.