Anchorage Daily News

EDITORIAL

Stevens' trial

The prosecution's repeated transgressions raise the risk that any conviction would be overturned on appeal.

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER

Obama's failure is one of character

Convicted felon Tony Rezko. Unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers. The race-baiting Rev. Jeremiah Wright. It is hard to think of any presidential candidate before Barack Obama sporting associations with three more execrable characters. Yet let the McCain campaign raise the issue and the mainstream media begin fulminating about dirty campaigning tinged with racism and McCarthyite guilt by association.

JUDITH KLEINFELD

Want to be smarter? Get some sleep

A friend of mine is worrying himself sleepless about getting enough sleep. He is convinced that he just isn't smart after a short night's sleep.

EDITORIAL

Rescue or bailout?

Look closely at the Wall Street bailout/rescue plans, and you'll see important differences between Alaska's congressional candidates.

MICHAEL CAREY

As Alaska turns 50, we should ask what we have become

Alaskans are celebrating the 50th anniversary of statehood. How strange the moment in which we honor our founders and reflect on the past half-century.

EDITORIAL

Palin on health care

Gov. Palin has made small steps toward better health care for Alaskans but has yet to achieve significant improvements. Coming Sunday, a look at Palin's record on energy issues.

EDITORIAL

No-bid preferences

The FDA’s manipulation of the no-bid preference for Native firms shows the need to reform the program

COMPASS

Nation needs dramatic change; that's why we need Palin

Our government is overwhelmingly dysfunctional, billions of dollars in debt, hemorrhaging increasingly large amounts of money, out of touch with citizen concerns and in need of a drastic overhaul.

EDITORIAL

Two steps forward ...

Police standards should stay high.

ALASKA NOTEBOOK

Who they are

McCain got his money's worth out of Sarah Palin's debate performance. She probably did about as well as she could given her experience and background.

COMPASS

We've got about 30 years of mistakes that need fixing

We were all watching the Wall Street bailout vote. Will it solve the housing bubble?

EDITORIAL

Monegan case

Delaying won't make it go away -- Gov. Palin and Attorney General Colberg should help the Legislature to resolve Troopergate.

EDITORIAL

Who's up / Who's down

Ups and Downs noted in the Palin-Biden debate

DAN FAGAN

Palin may be an awful president but not an ineffective one

Sarah Palin killed last night. If you don't realize that, then either your liberalism or your anti-Palinism has blinded you.

EDITORIAL

Biden wins the debate, but Palin regains lost ground

The race isn't over.

BONNIE ERBE

Recovery bill is a must for nation

The consequences of not passing the bailout plan -- or as some in Congress and the financial world have renamed it, the "recovery" plan, are pervasive, painful and possibly devastating.

STEVE HAYCOX

Nation's leaders demand license but are unable to drive

The dramatic 228-205 vote in the U.S. House against the bailout of America's finance industry this week should be recognized as a clarion call by ordinary citizens announcing their lack of trust of the country's current leadership. What made the vote dramatic was who proposed it: the secretary of the Treasury and the chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank, supported by President Bush and the Congressional leadership.

EDITORIAL

Migration

Government and nonprofit groups in Anchorage should coordinate assistance for rural Alaskans who are moving to the city in greater numbers.

ELSTUN LAUESEN

Palin co-opted into a Voldemort world

In a recent column, conservative Pat Buchanan describes a battle for Sarah Palin's soul in terms of a struggle between "true conservatives" and "Bush neo-conservatives."

COMPASS

Native Americans waiting for US justice

The U.S. House of Representatives has the lives of millions of Native Americans in its hands.

COMPASS

Though physically absent, Palin is executing her duties

I've worked for every Alaska governor since Jay Hammond.