Peter Mjos

I grieve for the demise of our former Alaska — a vision for the common good, for community, civility and civic responsibility.

With a mayoral election coming soon, it is incumbent that the Assembly resolve this oversight quickly.

How have so many politicians utterly failed to comprehend, much less embrace, and even struck down these sacred principles which are clearly not self evident to so many?

I salute and congratulate their teacher for conveying this increasingly rare gift of inquiry and learning

Truly magical, this one day in our city.

I distill it to the tools for rational and skeptical thinking; it must also teach us what not to do.

As Paul Krugman has written, “This cult of selfishness is killing America.”

Why does our government refuse to acknowledge and embrace these lessons, so valiantly earned at great national sacrifice?

We must demand that science and public health dictate our response to this crisis.

It seems that Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan have sworn “true faith and allegiance” only to Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump.

The Department of Interior’s secret, destructive, expensive and unfair land exchange needs to be rejected – this time for good.

Alaska's high costs of health care leave us chronically ill in more ways than one.

Alaskans have too much experience with broken promises to accept a policy of "trust us" on the issue of fracking.

Imagine waking up to new snow and icy roads and not worrying about diving into the ditch. How about not worrying whether your car will start so you can get the kids to school? Can you imagine Anchorage with smooth-flowing traffic any day of the week?