Anchorage News

We’ve got a long way to go, and like it or not, we have to travel that road together.

We need leaders, regardless of party, who can work with anyone and move all-out toward a solution, even if it wasn’t their idea in the first place.

Do we want to return to a system where the big political parties overwhelmingly controlled Alaskans’ election choices?

It’s not too much to ask to keep Alaska’s most functional branch of government running.

The mistakes surrounding the police shooting of Easter Leafa were not illegal, but they were obvious and preventable, and we should expect better.

Making roads safer is expensive, but it doesn’t hold a candle to the cost of our community having to bury more than a dozen of its own members each year because we made the wrong choices.

With structural fiscal issues that have yet to be addressed, Alaska can’t afford to miss out on federal funds that should by all rights be a slam dunk.

Several factors have left Alaska uniquely vulnerable to the disease, which can be deadly for infants and small children.

We all have a part to play in combating homelessness in Anchorage. Consider what your best contribution to the issue can be.

We can’t put the smartphone genie back in the bottle. But we can limit its negative effects on kids and their education.

Alaska has unintentionally removed most of the stakes and necessity of contests prior to the November general election.

More so than perhaps any of the prior shootings this summer, Easter Leafa’s case raises a host of disturbing questions that police have yet to fully answer.

If we keep wasting time, we’ll find ourselves in 2050, wondering where Alaska’s “good old days” went — and realizing they may be gone for good.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy can be the governor who spent eight years blaming others while the ship of state foundered on the fiscal shoals, or he can spend the next two years leading from the front.

Some say a good compromise leaves no one satisfied. By that metric, the hydro power plan for the Eklutna Dam may be the most successful compromise in Anchorage in many years.