Many Alaskans might think Sen. Lisa Murkowski didn’t attend last week’s White House announcement about Alaska’s LNG pipeline because of her combative relationship with President Donald Trump. But I suspect she knew that the U.S. and South Korea governments had not reached an agreement and chose not to participate in an “unprecedented” use of the White House as a prop for a campaign event.

If Pinocchio had been in the room, his nose might have grown long enough to equal several of the 115,000 sections of 40-foot steel pipe that would be needed to construct the mythical mirage of the Alaska North Slope natural gas pipeline project that has mesmerized state leaders for decades.

Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Bates’ rationale that mobile cruise ships should be regulated the same way as stationary industries like mines is ridiculous.

The new puppy Aggie. (Photo courtesy of Michelle Bonnet Hale) By Michelle Bonnet Hale My pipeline has two columns: one near completion and the other just beginning. They are both my usual blend of personal and local, political and philosophical. I try every day to sit down to work on them. They both require research, phone calls, and digging through details to make sure that my positions are supported. They require thinking for more than 30 seconds. Deep thought has become an

When it comes to politics, what a campaign says is rarely as important as what they’re avoiding. And the writers of Ballot Measure 2 are hoping you don’t notice what’s on 33 pages of the 35-page measure.

The League of Women Voters of Alaska (LWVAK) is a non-partisan, grassroots, statewide volunteer organization. Our mission is: empowering voters, defending democracy. We never support or oppose political candidates, but we do take positions on statewide issues, including ballot initiatives, after extensive research and analysis.

For Suzanne Downing, the Anchorage Daily News showed its editorial bias by not promptly covering the New York Times story about U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola. When they got around to it the next day, they noted the Alaska Democratic Party called it a “hit piece” intended to benefit her opponent, Sen. Dan Sullivan.

When Alaskans hear that a wastewater treatment facility has exceeded a permit limit, it is reasonable to ask: What happened? Did the system fail? How did regulators know? And what is being done to fix it?

In the 2020 general election, by less than 3,800 votes out of 344,000 cast, Alaska voters passed Ballot Measure 2, which replaced political party primary elections with ranked choice voting.

Mary Peltola’s use of hateful speech, including the R-slur and the F-slur, is more than a political matter. It cuts to the core of who we choose to be: Will we be a people that allows for words like this to be wielded without consequence? Or do we decide what is acceptable for ourselves, our candidates, our party, and our nation by demanding accountability and apology?

Unfortunately, the continued availability of hospice services in Juneau is in jeopardy.

Advocates of the ballot measure to repeal Alaska’s open-primaries voting system and replace it with closed primaries controlled by political parties are throwing out multiple misleading claims, hoping that something will stick in voters’ minds and give them a victory.