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You're a regular person. So are lots of drunken drivers. | Opinion
Ann Rezarch is a mediator for the Polk County Restorative Justice, Community-Represented Dialogue Program. Cynthia Erickson is a community volunteer for the Polk County Restorative Justice, Community-Represented Dialogue Program. We are part of a program in which people convicted of driving while intoxicated are required to have conversations with a member of the public. The court has made all decisions about guilt and consequences. They come to us bruised, defiant, mortified, defeated and wary.
Why ranked choice voting is not good for rural Alaska
To the editor: As an Alaska Native living in rural Alaska, I am concerned about ranked choice voting. Normally, when you vote yes on something that means you want it, and no means you reject it. That isn’t what’s happening in this case. Very confusing. We have approximately 240-plus villages whose ballots have to be sent to Juneau to be counted. In 2022, ballots from six villages — St. George, Levelock, Ambler, Kiana, Kobuk and Noorvik — weren’t tabulated in the final count.
Ballot Measure 2 will make voting difficult for some Alaskans
This election season, we are strongly urging our fellow Alaskans to vote no on Ballot Measure 2. This initiative would get rid of our simple one person, one vote system and replace it with a 25-page mess written and funded by billionaires in the Lower 48. Ballot Measure 2 did not come from folks in our communities; it did not come from within. No one in Alaska asked for this.
Voting initiative would harm rural communities
This election season, we are strongly urging our fellow Alaskans to vote no on Ballot Measure 2. This initiative would get rid of our simple one person, one vote system and replace it with a 25-page mess written and funded by billionaires in the Lower 48. Ballot Measure 2 did not come from folks in our communities; it did not come from within. In fact, more than 99% of its funding is coming from wealthy people in New York and California – people who have never been to Alaska.
In Alaska, minus 59 takes toll on cars, pipes, state of mind
In This Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017 photo, Carrie and Cuppy Agnes stand for a photo in front of the frozen Yukon River in Tanana, Alaska. The temperature Wednesday at the Tanana airport reached 54 degrees below zero Fahrenheit (-48 Celsius), the coldest recorded in the state, and was 5 degrees colder at -59 F (-51 C) along the river. (Cynthia Erickson via AP)
In Alaska, minus 59 takes toll on cars, pipes, state of mind
Ice crystals shower down on Courtney Moore Agnes after she flung a pot of boiling water into the air Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, in Tanana, Alaska. The temperature Wednesday at the Tanana airport reached 54 below zero, the coldest recorded in the state, and was 5 degrees colder at -59 along the river. (Cynthia Erickson via AP)
In Alaska, minus 59 takes toll on cars, pipes, state of mind
The sun rises through ice fog on the Yukon River Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, in Tanana, Alaska. The temperature Wednesday at the Tanana airport reached 54 below zero, the coldest
In Alaska, minus 59 takes toll on cars, pipes, state of mind
Ice crystals shower down on Courtney Moore Agnes after she flung a pot of boiling water into the air Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, in Tanana, Alaska. The temperature Wednesday at the Tanana airport reached 54 below zero Fahrenheit (-48 Celsius), the coldest recorded in the state, and was 5 degrees colder at -59 F (-51 C) along the river. (Cynthia Erickson via AP)
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