We’ve all been there, at DMV for a Real ID or to update our car registration, the waiting room full, only two employees behind the counter, and…one of them takes their lunch break. Collectively, the entire waiting room sees red. People grumble about those damn state workers. Some in the waiting room leave in disgust — they just don’t have time for this!

Resurrection Lutheran Church’s centennial is worth celebrating. For a century, generations of Juneau residents have worshipped at RLC, raised their children there, celebrated marriages and baptisms, mourned loved ones, made music, and served their neighbors. That history belongs to the entire congregation — not merely to whichever group presently controls the building or speaks in the church’s name.

Alaskans should know better than residents of the other 49 states when a politician is trying to buy their votes, particularly when the promise is a big fat dividend landing in their pockets.

I recently passed some fellow hikers, one of whom was wearing a T-shirt that read, “Elect good people.” I thought to myself, “Yes!” That is exactly what we need in this increasingly toxic political environment.

It has become a common refrain around the world, “USA is no longer the leader of the free world.” Why? Because our leaders have become bitter, angry and vengeful in authoritarianism. They have waged battles with and mocked our allies. And we Alaskans are very much to blame. Because we sent men to Washington who have capitulated to this.

In 2025, the three of us worked with citizens across our community to begin making Juneau more affordable. Together we got the ball rolling.

In the aftermath of a national health crisis, housing inflation, aggressive property tax increases and several controversial decisions by the Juneau Assembly, two initiatives to reduce our sales and property taxes succeeded last fall.

Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) “is a crooked form of voting. It's totally dishonest,” President Donald Trump said last week after indicating he’ll probably come to Alaska to help Sen. Dan Sullivan’s reelection campaign.

I grew up in Juneau. I learned to ski at Eaglecrest, swim at Augustus Brown, skate at Treadwell Arena, and our Southeast Alaska ecosystems by walking our trails. These are the public spaces that make this community feel like home.

Mary Peltola has described herself as a Democrat who supports Alaska resource development. One relevant part of her record is how she handled Alaska's Right to Produce Act, H.R. 6285.

You may have seen me in a new ad speaking out about Sen. Dan Sullivan and Alaska’s trawl industry. I agreed to be in that ad because I believe our elected leaders have a responsibility to put Alaska’s resources and fishing families ahead of political and industry interests.

President Trump’s staff and cabinet are constantly distracting him from his main mission. They ask him to focus on the Strait of Hormuz (“American territory”), tariffs on the soon-to-be 51st state, the war in Ukraine, and letters to his good friend Kim Jong Un, to name a few. And he needs time for his own hobbies: terrorizing his enemies real and imagined through government investigations and lawsuits, disrupting the November general election and planning Mar-a-Lago on the be