As you approach the Vanderbilt Hill intersection from the Valley, on the hillside you can see three new two-story apartment buildings. This is the Chilkat Vista development and yes, you can see the Chilkat Mountains from the apartments’ picture windows.

Just as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 drove oil prices higher — over $100 a barrel for several months — so too are the U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran, and Iran’s counterattacks, sending prices upward.

Alaskans are fortunate to have a long history of secure elections. The Alaska Division of Elections under lieutenant governors of both parties has been a model of safety, security and integrity. The rare instances of voter fraud in our state have been identified and prosecuted.

I watched the Juneau Assembly’s Feb. 23 Committee of the Whole meeting because a discussion of Telephone Hill was on the agenda, only to watch in amazement as city Engineering and Public Works Director Denise Koch told the Assembly that the glacial outburst flooding (GLOF) expected in the coming years could affect huge swaths of the valley that were not affected last year.

Sen. Dan Sullivan doesn’t like being portrayed as a weak-kneed politician. So when asked if he’d ever be willing to say no to President Donald Trump, he said when the administration does things he doesn’t like, he’ll sometimes “beat them up in public.”

For generations, the Organized Village of Kake and other Southeast Alaska tribes have been stewards of the Tongass National Forest, the largest temperate rainforest in the world.

If the governor really wanted to improve state ferry service for the 33 coastal communities that depend on the ships, he would get out of his office and go on a national recruiting tour to help find new hires to fill the crew vacancies that jeopardize service.

It’s a question I keep returning to as I watch the district fall into the same humanresources patterns that have strained organizations across the country. The research is consistent and well-established: three factors sit at the center of teacherretention challenges nationwide.

Recent commentary about Telephone Hill has focused on an 1881 Navy reservation and the reported placement of a Gatling gun overlooking Juneau and the Aak’w village for a couple years. That fact belongs to the historical record. It is not disputed.

History is replete with public figures who have sought to consolidate their power or aggrandize their role as leaders by dominating their landscapes with images of their likeness.

Sen. Murkowski has re-introduced the "Landless Natives Bill" in the Senate Energy Committee in the form of S.2554.

Last week, the state’s Division of Elections (DOE) signed a Confidential Memorandum of Understanding with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice that should alarm any Alaskan voter who didn’t swallow the 2020 stolen election scam spun by President Donald Trump. It gives DOJ permission to “test, analyze, and assess” the state’s voter rolls for the purpose of “removing ineligible voters.”