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Our View: Benzene

A UAA study confirms that benzene runs too high in many Anchorage homes. No need to panic, but this is a problem that needs to be addressed.

EDITORIAL

Our view: Dropouts

Experts know how to keep kids in school. But Alaska schools aren't doing even an average job of making it happen.

EDITORIAL

Our view: Welcome Sen. Begich

Godspeed.

EDITORIAL

Our view: Gulf War illness

Gulf War illness is real, and few vets who suffer the disease are getting better. It's past time for serious work on a cure.

EDITORIAL

Our view: Foster care

Chronic staff turnover is putting kids at risk in Alaska's foster care system.

EDITORIAL

Our view: Alaska needs a plan to make public schools better

Alaska needs to take a hard look at steps that will improve public education, like state-funded pre- kindergarten.

EDITORIAL

Our view: Giving vets their due

We expect a lot of our veterans; they've earned a lot in return.

EDITORIAL

Our view: Close it

Guantanamo's prison camp is a powerful symbol of where this country has gone wrong in fighting terrorism.

EDITORIAL

Our view: Killing wolf pups

Alaska has a long-standing rule against going into wolf dens to kill pups -- and for good reason. To most people, it seems inhumane for humans to kill utterly defenseless creatures. The rest of the world does not look kindly on a state that permits such a gruesome practice.

EDITORIAL

Our view: Wind at work

Renewable energy isn't just the future, it's right now in different parts of Alaska.

EDITORIAL

Our view: Report card

A one-year drop in test scores means the district must strive to do better next year.

EDITORIAL

Our view: Energy frontiers

Renewable Energy Fund offers the promise of a jump-start for cleaner, cheaper, sustainable power throughout Alaska.

EDITORIAL

Our view: Freeway priority?

The hundreds of millions of dollars that would go into a freeway connecting the Glenn and the Seward make it a very iffy project.

EDITORIAL

Who's up / Who's down

Winners and losers in the past week's news

EDITORIAL

Our view: School costs

It's not realistic to demand tiny, remote school districts spend 70 percent of their budgets on classroom instruction.

EDITORIAL

Our View: Taking Palin's side

Investigator's credulous report doesn't put the Troopergate controversy to rest.

EDITORIAL

Our view: Palin returns

Alaskans need to see the bipartisan, centrist Sarah Palin, not the highly partisan social conservative who ran for vice-president.

EDITORIAL

Our view: Challenge ahead

As oil prices return to normal, life as an Alaska legislator gets harder.

EDITORIAL

Our view: Bring a book

Voting today? You'll have lots of company, and that's good.

EDITORIAL

Elijah's plight

Five-year-old Elijah Mense's plight is a sad example of how a lack of coordination among doctors plagues our health care system.

BLOG: INSIDE OPINION

ANWR option

Opinion columnist Alan Boraas has a way to both produce ANWR's oil and preserve the refuge as a park.

OPINION: READER-SUBMITTED

Good, bad and ugly

Send photos of what's appealing - and not so appealing - in your neighborhood and in the city.

BLOG: INSIDE OPINION

What now for Palin?

Here's what some conservative national pundits are saying about Alaska's governor.

SLIDE SHOW

Elijah's plight

Five-year-old Elijah Mense's plight is a sad example of problems with our health care system.

BLOG: INSIDE OPINION

Ask Joe Contraire

Joe has put away his D-9 bulldozer and is now working indoors as a plumber. He doesn't have a plumber's license and he owes the Mat-Su Borough some unpaid taxes, so he figures he is eminently qualified to be a political commentator.

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Palin commentary

Running collection of editorials and guest columns discussing Gov. Palin as a vice presidential candidate.

OPINION: VIDEO

Comparison the pits

Curmudgeon digs up another similarity the Governor overlooked in comparing pit bulls to hockey moms.

ANIMATED EDITORIAL CARTOON

Save Sen. Stevens

Self-appointed Daily News ombudsman Joe Contraire says the paper is much too harsh on poor Sen. Ted Stevens.

ANIMATED EDITORIAL CARTOON

Contraire Water Initiative

Joe Contraire proposes his own "Real Alaska" solution to the problem of untangling the Wooten affair

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