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Columns & Sections

Alaska Scapegoat Ranch
A Great Escape-Goat: The Autumn Starting Lineup from the Alaska Scapegoat Ranch
column by Wilkins Micawber, prop.

Book Reviews
Catching Up
The Bush Dyslexicon
by Mark Crispin Miller
Ambling Into History
by Frank Bruni
The Lion's Grave
by Jon Lee Anderson
Jihad
by Ahmed Rashid
The Savage Wars of Peace
by Max Boot
War in a Time of Peace
by David Halberstam
A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
by Smantha Power
reviews by David A. James

Calendar of Events

Cartoon
Bush/Cheney 2004
by Dan Darrow

Editorial
The Survival of the Commons

Firebreak
by Sarah Wolfe

Letters to the Editor
Jeff Merkel
Nena MacDonald
Adam Meahan Ohlfahrt
Dirk R. Nelson
Kate Ragan

poetry
"Confessions"
by Doreen Fitzgerald

"A Requiem for the Arctic Refuge"
by John Haines

The Postal News
Obituary
Tucker
by Karen Aho

Belated But Joyous Wedding Announcement
by Judie Gumm

Ray's View from the Lump

Video Dreamland
In the Shadow of Motown
The Quiet American
Laurel Canyon
Silent Warning
Spider
movie reviews by Thela Clayton

Victuals & Drink
You Say Pomato, I Say Totato
recipe by Margaret Rogers

Web Feet
www.stupid.com
www.spycop.com
www.panicware.com
www.talkingbudgie.com
website reviews by CB & Gromit

Art Issue!

FEATURES

Art: A Teaching Tool
story & photos by Terry Glendinning

A profile of Liz Biesiot and the One Percent for Art projects she's done in Alaska's public schools.

Beat the Winter Bugs
by Debbie Rimer

There really is a cure for the common cold—if you catch it in time.

Confessions of a Serial Squirreler
by Jeffrey A. Rogers

Squirrels are ammo—just ask the author's favorite environmentalists.

EFL '03: Opening Games
by "Bonecrusher" Billington, photos by Sherri Schleiter

The Fall Classic and an unofficial game.

First Friday Art: A Review
by D. Helfferich

Funny animals, gallery-goers, and a cartoonist, plus lots of excellent art.

Found Artist
story & photos by Sherri Schleiter

Craig Buchanan and his found object art assemblages finally got in the paper: artwork, the business of art, and shows.

The Idiot in the Machine: a cautionary tale
by Carla Helfferich

Anyone who has used a modern word-processing program has encountered the Idiot, whose sole goal in virtual life appears to be to make writers look silly.

Of Politics, Partisanship, and Peppermint Schnapps
by Ross Coen of Fairbanks MediaWatch

A scathing critique of the News-Miner's September 5 editorial on Rick Solie and the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly.

The Valdez Drug War
by Dirk Nelson

When local police police departments flout state law to gain federal dollars, look out! There go your civil rights.

US-Iraq Relations Timeline
reprinted from politicalclothing.com

A timeline of relations between the United States and Iraq, from 1979 to 2002, and subtitled, "Or Why We Shouldn't Think That The People Who Got Us Into This Mess Will Get Us Out."

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