EDITORIAL
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
Experts know how to keep kids in school. But Alaska schools aren't doing even an average job of making it happen.
EDITORIAL
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
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
Guantanamo's prison camp is a powerful symbol of where this country has gone wrong in fighting terrorism.
EDITORIAL
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
Renewable energy isn't just the future, it's right now in different parts of Alaska.
EDITORIAL
A one-year drop in test scores means the district must strive to do better next year.
EDITORIAL
Renewable Energy Fund offers the promise of a jump-start for cleaner, cheaper, sustainable power throughout Alaska.
EDITORIAL
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
It's not realistic to demand tiny, remote school districts spend 70 percent of their budgets on classroom instruction.
EDITORIAL
Investigator's credulous report doesn't put the Troopergate controversy to rest.
EDITORIAL
Alaskans need to see the bipartisan, centrist Sarah Palin, not the highly partisan social conservative who ran for vice-president.
EDITORIAL
As oil prices return to normal, life as an Alaska legislator gets harder.
EDITORIAL
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
Opinion columnist Alan Boraas has a way to both produce ANWR's oil and preserve the refuge as a park.
OPINION: READER-SUBMITTED
Send photos of what's appealing - and not so appealing - in your neighborhood and in the city.
BLOG: INSIDE OPINION
Here's what some conservative national pundits are saying about Alaska's governor.
SLIDE SHOW
Five-year-old Elijah Mense's plight is a sad example of problems with our health care system.
BLOG: INSIDE OPINION
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.
SECTION
Running collection of editorials and guest columns discussing Gov. Palin as a vice presidential candidate.
OPINION: VIDEO
Curmudgeon digs up another similarity the Governor overlooked in comparing pit bulls to hockey moms.
ANIMATED EDITORIAL CARTOON
Self-appointed Daily News ombudsman Joe Contraire says the paper is much too harsh on poor Sen. Ted Stevens.
ANIMATED EDITORIAL CARTOON
Joe Contraire proposes his own "Real Alaska" solution to the problem of untangling the Wooten affair
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