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We’re No. 3!: Alaska’s falling oil output is nothing to cheer
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner editorial Sure, it’s just numbers and a ranking. Who cares that Alaska has fallen behind North Dakota on the list of states producing the most barrels of oil per day? ...
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Tis the season: Bicycles are an option for cheap transportation
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner editorial Outside the winter season, Fairbanks is one of the better places in the world to ride a bicycle. The weather and celestial mechanics during the past month ha...
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Ups and downs
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner editorial THUMBS UP: The Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly, in its final budget meeting Thursday, restored $64,000 it had earlier proposed to cut from the mayor’s...
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Power up: Healy plant's air permit shouldn't be an issue
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner editorial The “new” coal-fired power plant in Healy remains needlessly plagued by uncertainty concerning its air quality permit, even as the plant’s restart grows clos...
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S.T.O.M.P. today: Parade will fill downtown with marchers and onlookers
Editorial A parade unlike any ever seen in Fairbanks should wind through the downtown streets this morning beginning at 10 a.m. The Salute To Our Military Parade — S.T.O.M.P. — will feature vet...
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Reasonable offer: U.S. Postal Service pitches reduced hours
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner editorial A cutback in service hours at Alaska’s rural post offices would be a much better way for the U.S. Postal Service to save money than complete closures would b...
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Details, details: Budget needs constraint, but effects aren’t clear
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner editorial The Borough Assembly has taken several preliminary votes indicating its intention to reduce the mayor’s proposed budget for the coming fiscal year, and it co...
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Littering laws: It's time to enforce them
News-Miner editorial We want to recognize the community volunteers who pitched in as part of the Clean Up Day festivities. If you didn’t get the chance to join in Saturday but want to help by ...
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Five days: Make some noise at Saturday's military parade
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner editorial Five days. That’s all that’s left on the calendar until Fairbanks sees an amazing event: a parade of perhaps 5,000 military personnel, many of them freshly ...
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Fired up: Warming season brings danger of wildfires with it
Editorial Winter-like temperatures returned earlier this month, but we all know they won’t be staying. The longer days bring heat, and nowhere in Alaska is that heat more intense than in the Int...
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Community Perspectives
Bike to work for health and save energy
Community perspective The world market controls the price of oil, the federal government controls health care, multi-national corporations control most everything else. You control how you get t...
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Obstacles to rural dental care: State dental board stymies free care in remote villages
A team of volunteers from New York University traveled to two Interior villages last year and provided 120 dental treatment visits during five days. They set their patients on a path to better oral...
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This isn't what 'green' means: Susitna dam has drawbacks
Community perspective The prospect of renewable energy holds such promise: a future free of carbons, oil and pollution. Whether you believe in global warming or not, clean air, clean water and h...
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When does the drink take the man?: Biology plays a big part in alcoholism
Community Perspective When my three children were growing up, alcohol was never an issue. Young Jewish children usually get their first taste of wine during Passover. (Jews celebrating a Passove...
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Aches, pains and oil taxes: The weaknesses in governor's plan were coming out
Community perspective The legislative special session ended early, saving Alaska from misguided petroleum legislation. Conflicting information on oil and gas revenue issues confounded deliberati...
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Building alternatives for seniors: Nonprofit group offers new kind of retirement home
Community perspective We oldsters like to bore the younger generations by holding forth on how much better things were in the old days. But many things are truly better now, and one of them is h...
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Conduct code drew fire: UA employees were angered by policy draft
Community perspective He sure walked that back fast. On April 2, Patrick Gamble, the University of Alaska’s relatively new president (2010) proposed a “code of conduct” for UA employees to be e...
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School standards raise questions: Alaskans should look at proposal, offer comments
Community perspective By now, many of you have heard about the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development proposing new K-12 education standards in English-language arts and mathematic...
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Conservation is a powerful option: Environmentalists ask right questions at GVEA meeting
Community perspective At Tuesday’s annual meeting, Golden Valley Electric Association officers loudly blamed environmental groups for slowing down or blocking the re-opening of the Healy No. 2 c...
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‘New’ vs. ‘old’ oil myth: Chilkoot Charlie approach to tax reform will fail
Community Perspective For the second time in two years, a special session to deal with oil taxes may end in failure. State Senate leaders, unable to get themselves to the negotiating table with ...
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Letters to the Editor
Correcting credit
Letter to the editor May 14, 2012 To the editor: I would respectfully like to correct a statement made in an article published on May 14 about my recent retirement from the Fairbanks school di...
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Neurofibromatosis
Letter to the editor May 13, 2012 To the editor: May is Neurofibromatosis Awareness Month so, in honor, I would like to share my story. My 5-year-old daughter Holly is the first in our family ...
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Much appreciated
Letter to the editor May 12, 2012 To the editor: I just wanted to take a minute to thank all of our local military personnel who came out for S.T.O.M.P. and gave us the opportunity to show the...
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Impressive parade
Letter to the editor May 12, 2012 To the editor: The Salute To Our Military Parade was heart-warming and impressive. Much appreciation to the organizers, and sincere thanks to all the military...
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Tax loopholes
Letter to the editor May 10, 2012 To the editor: The Republicans are fighting to keep the loopholes open. They claim their closure — to raise revenue to pay for loans for higher education — wo...
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Food revolution
Letter to the editor May 10, 2012 To the editor: I live, learn, work, worship, play and eat in Fairbanks. Like everyone else, our family eats food. We’ve grown up eating dinner around the fami...
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Rube roast
Letter to the editor May 11, 2012 To the editor: The News-Miner has a policy of allowing 350-word letters to the editor. My opinions, backed by facts, can be fully addressed, usually. Synopsi...
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P.E.’s necessity
Letter to the Editor May 10, 2012 To the editor: Reducing or cutting out physical education requirements in our district schools would be a tremendous mistake. As an occupational therapist in ...
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