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Paine's Remains
The Trouble with Tom: The Strange Afterlife and Times of Thomas Paine
by Paul Collins
book reviews
by David A. James

Groundbreaking & Other Library News
by D. Helfferich

Calendar of Events

Cartoons
"Republican Dominatrix"
by Dan Darrow

"Hard on Terror"
by Jamie Smith

"Indignation"
by Erica Woodcock

"Guide to How Much You Love Hitler"
by Mikhaela Blake Reid

Editorial
It's Time for Voters to Be Frank with Don

Letters to the Editor
Kris Chandler
Jeff Rogers
T. Helfferich

Movie Reviews
Video Dreamland
Don't Come Knocking
RV
Game 6
Grilled
Firewall
Syriana
reviews by Thela Clayton

poetry
"A Conversation Between George Bush and Ghandi"
a prose poem by Shanna Karella

Postal News
Firebreak
column by Sarah Hilton

public announcements

Fire Department Annual Meeting
ECA Fall Meeting
Postal Centennial!
Catholics in Transition
Artrain USA

Obituary
Chris Barefoot: A Certain Amount of Moxie

Ray's View from the Lump

Victuals & Drink
Cloudberries: The Royalty of Alaska's Fruit
by Ruta Vaksys
and Martin Freed

The Deft Palate
Midnight (and the morning after) at the Oasis
restaurant review
by Mary Haley

FEATURES

At the Alaska-Siberia Lend-Lease Memorial Ceremony: Protesting Rumsfeld's Presence
by D. Heskin

The memorial August 27 at Griffin Park in Fairbanks didn't seem like a Lend-Lease celebration to the author. There were more people focused on protesting Donald Rumsfeld's presence than on this major program that allowed the US to supply Allied nations without actually fighting in the war.

The Missionary Position: On Stem Cell Research
by Neal Matson

A central theme in arguments around stem cell research and the use of Plan B contraception is the "moment when life begins" as a point at which morality must be considered. But life doesn't "begin," it's a continuum. Life begins before conception. The real question is when ensoulment occurs: "the blood is the life."

"Neither Holy, nor Roman nor an Empire"
by T. Helfferich

This year is the 200th anniversary of the fall of the Holy Roman Empire. It was a multilayered and uneasy conglomeration of hundreds of semisovereign states, and served as a model for the modern European Union.

Tending his Garden: Mike Musick Runs for Borough Assembly
by C.R. Stice

An interview with local builder and grandfather Mike Musick, who hopes to build sustainable community borough-wide.

Note: an error in the text of the print version of this article indicated the polar opposite of Musick's view on "sin taxes" such as alcohol and tobacco taxes, originally indicating that he thinks they should be eliminated. This is not the case, Musick corrected: "I believe sinners should pay." This error has been fixed in the online version.

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