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Commentary/Columns
 Dave
Kiffer:
Happy New Year - When I think about New Year's Eve in Ketchikan,
I think about Annette Funicello.
No, I wasn't one of those early
baby-boomers who matured watching her mature on the Mickey Mouse
Club Show. I was a late baby boomer.... More
Saturday - January 01, 2005
 Ray
Troll: Ray
Troll's' Top 5 CDs (+ 2) for 2004 - This was the year that
dad Troll fell behind the curve and the teenagers in the house
finally eclipsed the old man in music consumption and trend setting.
- More...
Saturday - January 01, 2005
 Preston MacDougall: Chemical
Eye on Frankincense and Myrrh - Imagine that you are at a
baby shower, and three Persian priests, or Magi, mysteriously
appear, each offering a gift for the newborn child. (Hey, it
could happen, I've heard of flash mobs doing stranger things.)
- More...
Saturday - January 01, 2005
Linda Seebach: Mysteries
of the crossword-puzzle mind - Since today's a holiday, you
probably don't want to read about anything Important but Boring,
and that's even if you're not nursing a hangover. So I hope you'll
indulge my writing about something a bit lighter: Crossword puzzles.
- More
Saturday - January 01, 2005
Viewpoints
Opinions/Letters
 Asking
For Your Vote by Samuel Bergeron - Sunday
Drilling
In ANWR by Kara Steele - Sunday
Off-road
vehicles by Tyrell Rettke - Sunday
Get
Your Facts Right by Dr. Simo Jovic - Sunday
Thank
you to the USCG by Shauna Lee - Saturday
4-wheelers
by Vicki Campbell - Saturday
US
response to the Tsumani disaster by Charlotte Glover - Saturday
No
Drilling In the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by Don Hoff
Jr. - Saturday
Main
point missed by Emily Katz - Saturday
New
Year's "Takebacks" by Joseph Branco - Saturday
Our
nation will rise to the occasion by Kelli Carlin-Auger -
Saturday
TSUNAMI
HELP, COMPASSION AND HEALING by Lynne Miller - Saturday
Let's
split Iraq up to save it! by Mark Neckameyer - Saturday
President's Initial Reaction Inadequate by Neil Gray - Saturday
Let's
go Ketchikan!! by Robert Sanderson Jr. - Saturday
Tsunami
Numbers by Bob Ciminel - Saturday
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2005: Predictions
for 2005 - Two Supreme Court vacancies touch off bitter fights
on Capitol Hill ... a 41-cent stamp for first-class mail ...
Osama remains at large ... Social Security reform stalls ....
no al Qaeda attacks in the United States.
Those are the highlights of
what our crystal ball sees ahead in 2005. Here are the details...
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Saturday - January 01, 2005
National: Medicare
dwarfs Social Security as long-term issue - President Bush
speaks with evident pride about his willingness to give top priority
this year to Social Security reform - a topic that for decades
has been synonymous with political peril.
But Bush could have picked
an even more difficult challenge. He could have taken on Medicare.
Experts say Social Security
will be a relatively easy problem to solve stacked up against
the financial difficulties already beginning to plague the Medicare
system, which provides health coverage for 40 million elderly
and disabled. - More...
Saturday - January 01, 2005
National: Next
intelligence challenge: Congress itself - The expertise,
political ties, clout and ego of many members of the House may
be tossed into turmoil as congressional Republican leaders prepare
this weekend to shake up Capitol Hill's oversight of the U.S.
intelligence system.
"Reorganization will be
very tough on some House members. They'll have to make sacrifices,"
said Stephen Hess, a Congress watcher at the Brookings Institution.
Despite certain opposition,
though, major changes - probably pulling several members into
national attention for the first time - are in the works as Congress
convenes for the start of its 109th session. - More...
Saturday - January 01, 2005
Alaska: Reform
Initiative Clears Legal Hurdle; Alaskans will vote on measure
in 2006 - The Campaign Finance Reform Again (CFRA) initiative
which supporters say is designed to limit the influence of special
interests on Alaska legislators was upheld in a decision issued
by the Superior Court on Wednesday. Under the ruling, the initiative
sponsored by Representatives Eric Croft (D), Harry Crawford (D),
and David Guttenberg (D), will be placed on the primary 2006
ballot.
Refuting a challenge by the
Alaska Libertarian Party that the reforms proposed were too sweeping
to be contained in a single initiative, Judge John Suddock ruled
Wednesday that all aspects of the initiative fall under the single
subject of ensuring that special interests do not unduly influence
elected officials. - More...
Saturday - January 01, 2005
Sitka: Rescuers
rush to pluck crew of capsized vessel from icy waters - Two
men forcibly kicked their way out of their boat's pilothouse
to free themselves from their vessel after it capsized a quarter
mile south of Povorotni Island at approximately 4:50 p.m.
Thursday.
Tom Young and John Bell, both
of Sitka, located a handheld radio as they departed the vessel
and used it to broadcast their Mayday alert. The Coast Guard
received this alert and issued an Urgent Marine Information Broadcast
before directing Coast Guard Air Station Sitka to dispatch a
rescue helicopter and crew to the scene.
The fishing vessel Fishtales,
four miles away, arrived shortly before the Coast Guard helicopter.
Once on scene, the Coast Guard
helicopter crew illuminated the debris field, shedding light
on the vessel's former occupants, one of whom appeared face down
in the water. The other could only wave an arm to attract the
attention of rescuers. The Fishtale's crew pulled the two distressed
persons free from the icy waters and beached their own vessel
nearby to offload and transfer them to the waiting Coast Guard
helicopter. - More...
Saturday - January 01, 2005
Christmas Classic: Final
Scores of the Clark Cochrane Christmas Classic
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