FEATURES & COLUMNS Bigger Business: This Bud's for Them
by Stephen G. Hannaford The recent acquisition of Anheuser-Busch by InBev was a big deal by any measure, but even more amazing was that this was the biggest cash deal ever.
A Conspiracy of Ravens: There's No Word for Our Future...
by Rich Seifert Things are going to get nutso in our swell state. The end of petty, corrupted actions and legislators is nowhere in sight, and the poor yahoos in our state legislature don't even know what questions to ask, let alone where to lead.
Dear Mistress
by Mistress Ester What a problem: too many fine young babes.
Dose of Reality: HR 676: The Route to Affordable Health Care
by Neil Davis The United States is in dire need of a program of affordable health care for all its citizens. The most promising milepost on the road to this happy state is HR 676, introduced by Rep. John Conyers (D-Michigan) in January 2007: the United States National Health Insurance Act.
The Ester Thought Posse Report
July 2008 Free trade and a hostile takeover result in mindreaders in China and some jokes in poor taste.
Fair Fare
Outpost Agriculture, by Philip A. Loring Fair-time is a cracking good time of year in Fairbanks—this town still has a real fair, not like the caricatures that I experienced in Florida.
Keeping a Greenhouse Healthy: Working with Soil Blocks
by Edge Fuentes, for Calypso Farm & Ecology Center We have been experimenting this season with an alternative to using plastic containers.
Live Free or Die: The Indispensible Freedom
part 14, by Hannah Hill Freedom of speech is not limited purely to spoken words but is understood to encompass many other foms of expression.
The Long View: The Results of Opposition
by Ross Coen When Congress passed the Alaska Statehood Act in June 1958, celebrations erupted across the territory: Alaska was finally a state. Well, not quite: Alaska voters still had to approve the act—and that wasn't quite the shoo-in that the final vote tally makes it seem.
The Missionary Position on Obama's Prayer
opinion by Neal "Hussein" Matson I do not share the belief that there is anything wrong with publicizing Obama's prayer at the Western Wall of Jerusalem. In fact, it is quite instructive to see the actual text, as it gives us further insight into the character of this presidential candidate.
Paul Costello in the Borough Chambers
by Hans Mölders Observations on a borough assembly work session, in which the Land Management department, headed by Mr. Costello, gave a presentation on the department and its funding sources: land sales, among others.
Uncle Ted
by Richard A. Fineberg Those public disclosure forms that Senator Stevens didn't claim gifts on weren't that easy to get wrong. Surely Uncle Ted, who says he "never knowingly submitted a false disclosure form," and who is surrounded by confirmed criminal convictions—and now himself indicted—surely he didn't forget about that Land Rover, or that generator, or his house in Girdwood?
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