Essays Flirting with Fascism, Again June 21, 2024 Civil War: The Next Big Thing March 7, 2024 Drag Queens Are No Match for Nuns January 22, 2024 The Cost of the Decline of the Printed Word August 7, 2023 This Fourth of July, Remember Valmy June 30, 2023 Hate Government? Go Live Under A King February 17, 2023 Lucy and Josh Lived the Dream December 27, 2022 Thanksgiving with a Trailblazer December 7, 2022 Open Letter to Lisa Murkowski November 29, 2022 The Delightful Obsession of Sport Fishing October 31, 2022 Another Peltola Win Needn’t Be A Fluke October 28, 2022 Your Public Librarian Is A Subversive October 27, 2022 Big Science and Small-Town Reporting July 28, 2022 To the Ramparts We Go May 20, 2022 One Man’s View of Abortion May 5, 2022 Doh! We Forgot About Nuclear War March 12, 2022 Boris On Line Two for You, Vladimir March 11, 2022 We Live On the Planet of the Apes February 25, 2022 Olympics Still the Best Show on TV February 24, 2022 Too Much and Too Little of A Good Thing February 17, 2022 Swimming with the Polar Bears January 23, 2022 Rethinking MLK Jr. Day January 18, 2022 The Appeal of the Legend of An Object Gone Missing December 16, 2021 What Is News? December 10, 2021 Forget Term Limits, Follow the Money October 29, 2021 We’ve Been This Stupid Before October 1, 2021 Afghanistan? Just Another Rerun September 3, 2021 Indeed, It’s North to the Future August 20, 2021 Rich Jerks Blast Off On Your Dime August 5, 2021 For the Love of God, Read the Greeks July 11, 2021 A Coffee Shop in Sitka on July 2 July 5, 2021 Thoughts on the Fourth of July July 5, 2021 It’s Over, Donnie July 1, 2021 Your Guns Won’t Protect Your Rights June 12, 2021 The $3,500 Headache May 22, 2021 The Sad Season of Free Junk May 14, 2021 What Is It About Hawaii? April 28, 2021 Remembering Larry McMurtry March 26, 2021 Bumping into Sarah Palin March 12, 2021 Bring Back the Draft March 5, 2021 Dick Carlson: Son of the Northwest March 5, 2021 Chasing the American Dream February 21, 2021 Trump Makes Life Easy for Democrats February 17, 2021 To Unify Country, Rebuild Middle Class February 4, 2021 Impeach, Prosecute Trump Now January 8, 2021 Last Hurrah of the Angry White Folks January 7, 2021 This Is America November 9, 2020 Beware Trump’s Hoons November 2, 2020 To Beat A Rabid Minority, Shut Down the System October 2, 2020 Biden Loses Big in First Debate September 30, 2020 I Voted Via Email September 25, 2020 Hope and the Human Voice August 14, 2020 Greatest Hits of the CVN Office August 7, 2020 Reflections on Graduation May 21, 2020 March On, Proud Michiganders April 19, 2020 Take Away Trump’s Dangerous Megaphone April 6, 2020 The Duck Pond in Cambridge, Ohio March 2, 2020 Send A Valentine to Donald Trump February 5, 2020 Cars, Cars, Everywhere January 8, 2020 Sledding Toward 60 December 19, 2019 Farewell to Buckwheat Donahue November 23, 2019 The Bathtub, the Dining Room and the Sunday Paper November 21, 2019 On Missing John and Ray November 14, 2019 Whatever Happened to Mischief Night? November 5, 2019 Unnecessary War and the Library Book Sale October 24, 2019 Jesus, Climate and Greta Thunberg September 24, 2019 Death to the Jumbotrons September 14, 2019 Nothing Like the State Fair September 6, 2019 Highway Project Is No Improvement September 5, 2019 Rise of the Fear and Hazard Racket August 30, 2019 What You Learned at the Sea Shore August 8, 2019 Fly Me to the Moon July 21, 2019 Dissent and the Fourth of July July 18, 2019 Can the Listing Ship Be Righted? July 18, 2019 Note to the Alaska Legislature July 18, 2019 Note to the Alaska Legislature July 15, 2019 Last Call for the Hotel Halsingland? June 19, 2019 Replace Your Shovel Handles May 31, 2019 Can We Adults Be Done with ‘Crying’? May 30, 2019 Beware the Strongman Ascendant May 25, 2019 The Ease of Living Far Away May 23, 2019 Sick, Dumb, Mean and Afraid March 4, 2019 A Lock of Hair, An Autograph February 26, 2019 On Guns, Life Imitates Art February 22, 2019 It’s Class War, and the Rich Are Winning February 22, 2019 Gov. Mongo and The Gipper February 21, 2019 All Hail the Mighty Bingle February 1, 2019 Gathering Together Threads of a Life January 28, 2019 Returning to My Hometown November 15, 2018 Windfall Could Save or Doom the Chilkoot November 9, 2018 About Brett and Lisa October 9, 2018 Theater Review: ‘Princess Sophia’ September 29, 2018 Drawing the Line at ‘Kiddos’ September 21, 2018 The Coolest Thing About Haines September 20, 2018 The End of the Phone Book? July 12, 2018 Remembering Will Rogers July 12, 2018 Batter Up! April 6, 2018 Klukwan Has Reason to be Wary April 2, 2018 Step Up, Save the Haines ‘Bigs’ Program April 2, 2018 The Seed Vault of Western Thought March 23, 2018 Can We Talk About Winter? March 23, 2018 Mountain Race Could Become Haines Classic February 27, 2018 School Fortresses Coming Next February 23, 2018 Despite the Hype, Olympics Inspire February 23, 2018 On Guns, It’s Time to Rattle Washington February 19, 2018 The Wonders of a Trip Outside February 16, 2018 Losing Your Voice at KHNS August 24, 2017 Haines Junction, Who’d a Thunk It? August 24, 2017 Don’t Drink the Water? August 24, 2017 For the Love of Competition June 30, 2017 Quake, Rattle and Roll May 4, 2017 Music: What’s It Worth to Us? March 4, 2017 Music: What’s It Worth to Us? March 4, 2017 Sports-A-Palooza March 3, 2017 Sports-A-Palooza March 3, 2017 The Meaning of the Towels March 3, 2017 The Meaning of the Towels March 3, 2017 Are We Now Afraid of Snow? December 2, 2016 It’s Anchorage, Again November 2, 2016