'Approach
for Landing'
Front Page Photo by Chris Wilhelm
 Alaska: State,
unions sign labor agreement for Fairweather; Fairweather could
be back in service on or before March 24th - State labor
negotiators have reached an agreement with the two remaining
labor unions involved in operations of the MV Fairweather, approving
a contract to return the state's first fast-ferry to regular
operations in time for the summer tourism season. - More...
Tuesday - March 08, 2005
National: 'Nuclear
option' holds peril for both sides in Senate by Margaret
Talev - Given U.S. tensions with Iran and North Korea, "nuclear
option" might not have been Republicans' most diplomatic
choice of a nickname for the procedure they're considering unleashing
on Capitol Hill next month. In fact, many are cringing at the
moniker, preferring the phrase "constitutional option."
- More...
Tuesday - March 08, 2005
Ketchikan: Study
Planned To Determine Wood Quality of Second-growth Trees
- With an eye to the future, the Tongass National Forest plans
to conduct a study to determine the wood quality of second-growth
trees.
The Wood Quality Cooperative
Study will involve Pacific Northwest Research Station and Forest
Products Laboratory in Madison, Wisc. The aim of the study is
to gather information about the volume and quality of lumber
products that could be manufactured from young-growth western
hemlock and Sitka spruce. - More...
Tuesday - March 08, 2005
Alaska: Alaskans
debate future of bear refuges by Tom Kizzia - Rod Arno remembers
guiding bear hunters in the country south of Kamishak Bay. It
was the only place in his career where he led a client to a coastal
brown bear and then, the next day, returned with another client
to shoot a second trophy feeding on the unsalvaged remains of
the first one. - More...
Tuesday - March 08, 2005
Alaska: Elkins
Proposes Tax Reimbursement to Communities - Representative
Jim Elkins (R-Ketchikan) introduced House Bill 195, a bill that
will reimburse over $29 million to communities for losses from
the Senior Citizen and Disabled Veteran Property Tax Exemption.
- More...
Tuesday - March 08, 2005
Alaska: Unemployed
Workers to Get Extended Benefits - A seasonal rise in Alaska's
unemployment rate will trigger up to 13 weeks of extended benefits
for unemployed Alaskans starting March 12, Alaska Department
of Labor and Workforce Development Commissioner Greg O'Claray
said Monday. - More...
Tuesday - March 08, 2005
Alaska: ADF&G
Declines to Issue Permit for Export of Evansville Wolf -
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) announced
Monday that it will not issue a permit to capture a wolf seen
around the village of Evansville, Alaska and relocate it to the
state of Washington. - More...
Tuesday - March 08, 2005
Alaska: Inmates
Volunteer To Help Iditarod; Provide Care for Dropped Dogs
- Staff and inmates at Hiland Mountain/Meadow Creek Correctional
Centers in Eagle River have again volunteered to care for sled
dogs dropped from teams competing in the Iditarod Trail Sled
Dog Race, Superintendent Dean Marshall said. - More...
Tuesday - March 08, 2005
Columns - Commentary
 Jay
Ambrose: The
McCarthyism of political correctness - As the just-resigned
president of the University of Colorado said, there's a "new
McCarthyism" alive in America. But it's hardly what was
gnawing at her. - More...
Tuesday - March 08, 2005
Martin Schram: An
impressive plan to halt nuclear proliferation - When it comes
to stopping terrorists and rogue nations from getting nuclear
weapons, government officials always promise they will go the
extra mile to keep us safe. - More...
Tuesday - March 08, 2005
 Dale
McFeatters: It's
not propaganda if it's true - The Bush administration has
been visibly frustrated at the inability of the United States
to get its message through to the Arab world in a positive light.
One manifestation of this is the occasionally expressed belief
that everything would be all right if the Arab cable news channel,
al-Jazeera, could be bought, bullied or browbeaten into seeing
things our way. - More...
Tuesday - March 08, 2005
 Paul
Campos: Health
hysteria vs. reality - Two new reports illustrate how cultural
hysteria can remain immune to the moderating influence of reality.
The first compiles government
statistics for the year 2003, which reveal that life expectancy
in America continues to improve steadily, and that rates of the
nation's biggest killers - heart disease and cancer - continue
to decline.- More...
Tuesday - March 08, 2005
 Bob
Ciminel: Blowin'
in the Wind - With Germany set to phase out its nuclear power
plants by 2020 (although there are rumors they may be changing
their minds about that ill-advised decision), the Social Democrats
and their partners, the Green Party, are still trying to push
through a plan to have 20% of the country's electrical power
generated by wind no later than 2015. - More...
Tuesday - March 08, 2005
 Preston
MacDougall: Chemical
Eye on Skull and Boneheads: What the Yale is going on? -
It must be rooted deep in our human nature, because despite the
fact that, by definition, they do not beckon, secret societies
continue to lure us.
During the 2004 general election,
we knew that both John Kerry and George Bush were members of
the Skull and Bones secret society at Yale University. But that's
all we knew. The rest was rumor and speculation.- More...
Tuesday - March 08, 2005
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