I recently received your letter in response to my call expressing my deep concerns about the war with Iran. The five-page, single-spaced missive was dense and extremely hard to read.

I am writing in support of the position that the history of the 1802 and 1804 battles cannot be separated from all the people who stood against the Russians.

I read the Juneau Independent’s article on Orange Shirt Day. My wife is an erased Alaska Native thanks to the Baptist boarding school at Wood Island, Alaska. Our grandmother, Olga Berstoff/Berestov, was taken from the Seldovia tribe back in 1911, she was 2 years old. She was taken with her older sister Marina. Back in 2019, after two years of research, I was able to find out everything about my wife Cheri's ancestry and heritage. Sadly, her tribe refuses to acknowledge her, a

Juneau is special. We’re a weird, wonderful little community carved out between mountains and water, with our own way of life, our own approach to doing things, our own ways of looking out for each other.

The truth is the Juneau Assembly and CBJ management are out of control. As a result, a large number of Juneau residents simply no longer trust our Assembly or borough management to make sound decisions.

I dropped off my property tax check this morning. It was our largest expenditure for September. Affordability is the key word for many people this election cycle.

My wife and I chose to raise a family in Juneau two decades ago because it is an exceptionally livable place, with biking, skiing, indoor recreational facilities, boating, hunting, and fishing that doesn’t require spending most of your weekend stuck in a car to access.

Last week, Sen. Lisa Murkowski introduced Kyle Reardon to the Senate Judiciary Committee. He and five others have been nominated by President Donald Trump to serve lifetime judicial appointments. She said Reardon would bring “the experience, the intellect, the integrity, and the judicial temperament necessary to be an effective District Court judge.”

It has been 11 months since Juneau voted to lower the property tax cap and eliminate sales tax on food, also blowing a large hole in the budget.

If you don’t like the skyrocketing price of gas or diesel or heating oil, vote for Mary.

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Assembly decisions are too often viewed by both the public and sitting Assembly members as isolated decisions without consideration for downstream consequences.