To the editor: There’s not a “war” going on in Ukraine. There’s a brutal ongoing attack on a tiny peaceful nation by a vast tyrannical one. That’s political aggression, not “a war.”

To the editor: MAGA, translated to reflect the current actions of the Trump administration, in alpha order. Feel free to add your own.

To the editor: If anyone is wondering how they will be personally impacted by the entirely unnecessary trade war that the current administration has decided to declare, consider this: cargo ship traffic from China has already declined substantially since February, and analysts are saying tha…

To the editor: The Bishop of Rome. Pope Francis. Papa Francesco. In Italian, the word pope is “papa.” (With an accent mark, it means “dad.”)

To the editor: Thank you, Sen. Murkowski, for pledging to protect Medicaid and Title X, the federal funding program that provides low-income Alaskans with access to birth control and basic, preventive reproductive health care like cancer screenings, wellness exams, and STI testing and treatment.

To the editor: I read a book years back about Russia’s Soviet ambassador, Anatoly Dobrynin, and his involvement during the Carter administration. Dobrynin was the Soviet ambassador from 1962 to 1986, which involved six U.S. presidents — Kennedy through Reagan.

To the editor: I watched with dismay as a majority of our Interior state senators and representatives voted against the educational interests of the Fairbanks North Star Borough schools. Most recently, they voted down a package which would have increased the Base Student Allocation (BSA). Af…

To the editor: I’ll make it brief: Detention without due process is kidnapping.

To the editor: The other day I overheard a local teen describing being ignored by her friends. Cut off cold for no reason, with no texting, Instagram, Tic Toc, Snapchat or YouTube contact coming her way. She said she felt anxious, confused and rejected.

To the editor: I would like to ask [Borough Assemblymember] Tammie Wilson just how many times she has come to the Mary Siah pool and actually joined in with the walkers and swimmers? Or the other Borough Assemblymembers who think the pool isn’t used enough” Just how many of you have even dip…

To the editor: As a third-generation Fairbanksan with children and grandchildren living here, I am so disappointed at the lack of priority our community and state leaders are putting on education.

To the editor: Is Donald Trump a Russian asset? That is the question that is increasingly being asked.

To the editor: Pretty sure I have said this before: Closing Mary Siah is not going to cause elders to rush to the other pools.

To the editor: The League of Women Voters of the Tanana Valley supports Borough Ordinance 2025-09, which will increase voter confidence in elections by implementing a limited hand-count audit for Fairbanks North Star Borough municipal elections. The ordinance will verify the count produced b…

To the editor: Isn’t it great that we’re finally getting those trans sports bans? Protecting girls from getting hurt is really important to the Republican Party. Just look at all the victories in our state going to trans girls that should have gone to cisgender girls!

To the editor: Happy Easter! Just as our lord Jesus Christ rose from the tomb on this day, let us also pray Democracy too shall rise up and deliver us from beneath the yoke of the Orange-Haired Caesar!

To the editor: In a time when privacy concerns dominate public discourse, the conversation surrounding the tracking of gun and ammunition purchases by financial institutions has become increasingly urgent. We introduced companion bills, SB 136 and HB 143 respectively, to prohibit such tracki…

To the editor: I write in support of continued use by the Fairbanks North Star Borough of election tabulation machines as well as Assemblymember David Guttenberg’s proposal, Ordinance 2025-09, which provides for verification through hand counting of two randomly selected precincts. The prese…

To the editor: All I have to say, Fairbanks, is that we better get our act together and get rid of this snow. We have hundreds of thousands of tourists on their way — some probably in the air already — expecting to find at Creamer’s Field a place to land, spend the night, and dine on seeds a…

To the editor: Am I the only one who thinks that this Fox News Drunk who is now the head of the Department of Defense should be at least fired and probably should be locked up?

To the editor: Trump, you’re bound to lose.

To the editor: I recently visited out of state, and I had a conversation with a man who lived in Hawaii. He asked why I could never leave Alaska. I said because that’s where my ancestors are from, and I have my people there.

To the editor: In today’s digital world, the amount of content available online is staggering. For children, content can be educational and entertaining, yet harmful to emotional, psychological, and brain development. However, there are solutions that allow parents more control over the cont…

To the editor: Right now Republican leaders in Congress are debating a package that would provide $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to large corporations and billionaires like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg — and they plan to pay for it by cutting essential tools families and businesses need to thriv…

To the editor: The recent laudatory support by President Trump for the trans-Alaska GAS pipeline received a glowing reception by Alaska’s governor, two of our