OPINION: The premise that Doug Vincent-Lang is unqualified for his position as acting director of the Alaska Division of Wildlife Conservation is dead wrong.
OPINION: Many bills offer legislators the chance to spend, spend, spend, but since spending is much more popular than saving -- particularly in an election year -- poor House Bill 194 won’t have a happy ending. But I’ll give you my pitch anyway.
Apparently the U.S. does not need a robust surface fleet of seagoing Arctic vessels — all the country's polar needs can be outsourced to the international community.
As a conservative constitutional scholar, I am deeply troubled by Newt Gingrich's vision for executive power over the courts – even if it is to strike back at liberal judges. Such a seizure of power threatens the rule of law upon which free and equal citizenship is founded.
Rodney K. Smith | The Christian Science Monitor
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Feb 1, 2012
In the first of a series, former lawmaker Vic Kohring, now released from prison, sets the stage to tell the story of a federal probe of public corruption in Alaska from his own perspective as a defendant.
In his State of the Union address, President Obama touted ways to improve education and the economy. One solution didn't make it into the speech: a two-generation strategy to educate families and bring them out of poverty.
Courtney E. Martin | The Christian Science Monitor
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Jan 30, 2012
Obama and GOP should unite in driving the use of this abundant gas as a "bridge fuel" to renewable energy. But they must be cautious in rushing to tap shale gas.
Christian Science Monitor Editorial Board
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Jan 29, 2012
OPINION: On Tuesday at Nome Beltz High School, chili was served, and students were charged for their forks. Either the authorities declared an official “Spoon Day” without telling anyone, or Nome's experiencing another shortage.
A radical question state game biologists should be allowed to ask: Under what conditions, if any, do wolves or bears indirectly help more moose or caribou survive than these predators kill?
