“There’s just two things in life that can’t be created and that’s true love and home-grown tomatoes.” song lyric On the table at Jane’s house is a bowl of cherry tomatoes she grew. Because only a dozen are ripe and I didn’t grow them, I can get away with snatching maybe one a day. But this morning I took two.…
Six candidate forums were held during the municipal election campaign in 2016 when I was elected to the Haines Borough Assembly. The final forum was held at the Chilkat Center, with a proposed theme that we articulate a vision for what Haines should look like 25 years into the future. The forum strayed wildly from that theme and got hung…
The key to the Haines economy is to do better with what we already have and to encourage and support people already busy with worthwhile projects that have popular support. We tend to think of government as a budget and departments, funded by tax collection. But government can do so much more than the essentials. One of the things the…
Resolving Constantine Mine: Hold a boroughwide advisory vote on whether residents support the development of an industrial mine at the Palmer deposit. Let the results determine whether our borough government resists or accommodates this development, including on issues like improving Porcupine Road and in providing the borough’s public comment on regulatory matters. In either case, pass a minerals severance tax…
In 37 years in Haines, including as a newspaper reporter, editor, publisher and Haines Borough Assembly member, I’ve had the privilege of getting to know our town, its people, history, culture and politics. I have celebrated our successes and mourned our losses, endured our battles and led or joined various efforts to improve our town. Now I’d like to work…