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Columns & Sections

Book Reviews & Library News
Reality Challenged
True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society
by Farhad Manjoo
review by David A. James

Alaska Band Gets Lonesome and Ornery and Means It
Cold Country
by Cold Country
review by Lori Neufeld

Cartoons
"Thanks but no thanks (Easter version)"
by Dan Darrow

"with Friends like these"
"drunk Natives vs. native drunks"
by Jamie Smith

Editorial
Mud Puddles and (Unprotected) Greens

Letters to the Editor
An Open Letter to Garrison Keillor
by Jeffrey A. Rogers

Movie Reviews
Movies from the Mile-High City
Horton Hears a Who
Watchmen
Eastbound & Down (TV show)
Seven Pounds
reviews by Keely Buchanan

poetry
"fifty white swans"
by Robert Adair

Chickadee"
by Frank Keim

A Woman ’Round Here Name of Deirdre"
by Matthew Reckard

"Recessionary Blues"
by Gregory K. Shipman

"Tuesday"
"Bitten"

by Jacob Stephens

The Postal News
Announcements

Ray's View from the Lump

Victuals & Drink
Cinco de Mayo Recipes
by Mary Wagner

FEATURES

A screaming comes across the sky…
The Long View, by Ross Coen

Sputnik's rocket landed back on Earth scant days after a fireball roared through the Alaska sky at a terrific speed, back in 1957 on November 30. Almost everyone thought it was the rocket--at first.

Dr. Geyges' Guide for the Perplexed
advice from Dr. Geyges for the theologically challenged

Are the souls of the unborn or the unbaptized with or without sin? And where do they go if they are miscarried, aborted, or die before baptism?

Impressions of El Salvador
by April E. Crosby

During the advancing gloom of early winter, I asked a friend for ideas on how to avoid the following winter altogether. "Why don't you come to El Salvador with me?" she proposed. So my husband and I went south in winter 2008 as volunteers with the Teacher to Teacher--Alaska to El Salvador program.

Marketing Machines
Dose of Reality, by Neil Davis

The lifeblood of the major pharmaceutical companies is the monopoly that the government confers to them in the form of patents. And it's a very profitable business indeed.

The Missionary Position on Marijuana
by Neal Matson

Medical marijuana is a no-brainer.

No Chicken Left Behind
Outpost Agriculture, by Philip A. Loring

So why wouldn't a family raise chickens? It is easy, cost-effective, and provides a degree of food security you certainly cannot obtain at Fred Meyer.

Your Position in the World
A Conspiracy of Ravens, by Richard Seifert

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