Haines Issues Owners and Would-Be Owners Talk Restaurants April 16, 2024 Ten Rules for Citizens, Leaders and Public Officials April 12, 2024 Slowly, Our Town Becomes An Island March 11, 2024 Oh, the Uproar That Will Come March 7, 2024 It’s Back to the Future at Garbage Point March 6, 2024 Thoughts On Novembruary February 22, 2024 The Absurdity of Owning Lutak Dock February 22, 2024 Full Support of Non-Profits February 4, 2024 Home of the Green and White February 2, 2024 Act Now to Save Eagle Preserve Council February 2, 2024 Parks and Recreation: A Proposal For Moving Forward January 20, 2024 Winterfest Gets A Big Boost January 16, 2024 In Fits and Starts, We Improve Main Street August 25, 2023 Why I’m Running for Mayor August 24, 2023 Dick Flegel’s Superpower Was Sticking Around July 2, 2023 Chamber of Commerce Needs New Direction June 23, 2023 The Problem With Appointments April 13, 2023 How to Avoid A $57,000 Black Eye April 13, 2023 Culture Wars Galore April 10, 2023 Winter Ends When It Damn Well Wants To April 10, 2023 My History As A Cross-Dresser April 7, 2023 Winterfest: Easy Win for New Tourism Director March 2, 2023 Give Chilkoot Park to the Chilkoots February 28, 2023 Why We Should Elect Our Planning Commission January 20, 2023 Saturday Night at Mosquito Lake Center January 20, 2023 Don Turner Jr.’s Letter About Tyler Huling January 19, 2023 Chilkats Pay Visit to Borough January 15, 2023 Tourism Program Isn’t Broken; Don’t Fix It January 10, 2023 Bring Young People In from the Cold December 26, 2022 How to Cabin at Chilkat State Park December 23, 2022 Thank Judy for the Condoms December 21, 2022 God, Send Another Joe Price December 21, 2022 GOP Poison Comes Home to Bug Lake October 28, 2022 Don’t Expect Much from This Assembly October 27, 2022 Home of Lisa Murkowski? October 18, 2022 Sorting Out Our Restaurant Thing August 5, 2022 Some Enchanted Evenings August 5, 2022 The Back Story on Garbage Rate Hikes August 4, 2022 Police Budget Starting to Suck Facilities Dry May 19, 2022 Help Keep the Swimming Pool Open April 15, 2022 It’s-Not-My-Jobism Is Killing Our Town Events April 14, 2022 Madness Begins in March March 11, 2022 God and Gambling in the Heartland February 18, 2022 The Long Wait for Better Weather February 18, 2022 The Biggest Chill February 10, 2022 Paint the Town Red, Yellow and Blue February 10, 2022 What It Is and What to Do About It January 9, 2022 Build the Lighthouse December 16, 2021 The Appeal of the Legend of An Object Gone Missing December 16, 2021 Remembering David and Jenae December 3, 2021 What’s the Big, Ugly Parking Lot For? December 2, 2021 New Life for Mosquito Lake School? November 20, 2021 Worst Christmas Present Ever November 20, 2021 What Will Happen to AIA? November 18, 2021 Why Haines Teacher Pay Is Low October 28, 2021 Glacier Bears Run Like Never Before October 21, 2021 Let’s Find Out Where the Eagles Are October 21, 2021 Why I Support Josephson, Schnabel October 1, 2021 To Solve Bear Issue, Borough Will Have to Pay September 30, 2021 The State Fixed the Wrong Park Road September 3, 2021 Look On the Bright Side of Cloudy Weather September 3, 2021 Vote for Experience on Borough Assembly September 3, 2021 Not Impressed By China August 20, 2021 Indeed, It’s North to the Future August 20, 2021 The Votes Are In: New, Chilkoot Road Stinks August 19, 2021 A Great Victory for Alaska Women Athletes August 13, 2021 Time for Haines to Divorce Large Cruise Ships August 13, 2021 Stop Raiding Tourism and Economic Development Fund August 12, 2021 Is Lutak Dock A Taxpayer Subsidy of the Freight Business? July 8, 2021 Ours Is A Nap and A Beer Town June 18, 2021 Revenge of the Science People June 10, 2021 Swimmers Make Case for Keeping Pool Open May 28, 2021 Trash to Treasure and Vice Versa May 27, 2021 Ask Your Assembly: Why Spend Money on Lutak Dock? May 21, 2021 Brown Bears Losing Ground at Chilkoot May 13, 2021 Questions for Haines Borough Assembly Members May 13, 2021 Assembly Aims, Shoots Self In Foot May 12, 2021 Oh, Canada May 6, 2021 Put Gun Sanctuary Question on Municipal Ballot May 6, 2021 Borough Assembly Out in Left Field May 1, 2021 Haines Borough vs. The United States May 1, 2021 New Manager Zoukee Faces Uphill Battle March 25, 2021 Why No March Party at the Home of the Green and White? March 17, 2021 Assembly Goes Gambling for Dollars March 12, 2021 Capital Projects Bring Out Welfare Queens March 11, 2021 Dumb and Getting Dumber About Brown Bears March 5, 2021 Borough Funding of Recreation Long Overdue February 26, 2021 Will Disaster End Our Divisiveness? February 3, 2021 Where Is the Southeast Winter Art? January 24, 2021 Museum Making All the Right Moves January 21, 2021 Trump Lost Because He Couldn’t Dance January 20, 2021 Go For A Walk January 15, 2021 The Real Code of the North January 8, 2021 Act Now To Create Chilkat River Trail January 8, 2021 Open Letter to A New Assembly Member September 25, 2020 We Laid Off Our Contact Tracer August 14, 2020 Freedom to Roll the Dice on COVID August 14, 2020 Make the Mayor Do More August 7, 2020 Tourists and Other Invasive Species August 1, 2020 How to Keep A Borough Manager July 16, 2020 Liberals Must Wake Up and Smell the Budget July 9, 2020 There Are Reasons for Hope June 26, 2020 Haines Failing at Bear Safety for 27 Years June 26, 2020 Make the Mayor an Assembly Member June 18, 2020 The Unseen Legacy of Consolidation June 17, 2020 Our Assembly Was Sidelined by Foofaraw June 5, 2020 Write Now For Public Use Cabins in Haines June 4, 2020 When the Cost in Lives Runs Too High May 29, 2020 The Assembly Must Lead May 27, 2020 How the Assembly Can Get Its Act Together May 20, 2020 Improving Manager-Assembly Relations May 15, 2020 Assembly Action on Schnabel No Surprise May 15, 2020 Economic Development vs. Tourism Promotion May 8, 2020 Consider Tapping Permanent Fund Capital May 8, 2020 Newspapers and the Public Health of Discourse May 7, 2020 Assemby Takes Wrong Turn On Quarantine May 1, 2020 For COVID Enforcement, Appeal to Kindness April 30, 2020 On COVID Regulations, Don’t Trust Dunleavy April 29, 2020 Borough Setting Itself Up to Be Burned April 29, 2020 Heath Scott’s Egregious Twist of the Law February 29, 2020 Take Up Larry Larson’s Good Idea February 19, 2020 Heath Scott Is Back for More Money February 14, 2020 Lessons of the Haines Pool Sauna Project February 13, 2020 Over Time, Louie’s Crazy Dream Is Coming True February 10, 2020 The Manufactured Crisis December 6, 2019 Assembly Can Easily Resolve Access Disputes December 6, 2019 Tourism Fund Raided, Decimated November 22, 2019 Dissolve the Mining Forum Committee November 14, 2019 On Missing John and Ray November 14, 2019 Why Independent Marketing Is Critical October 4, 2019 Support 1 Percent, Tourism Department September 23, 2019 A Smarter, Cheaper Alternative for Garbage Issues September 21, 2019 Push Your Point with Assembly Candidates Now September 19, 2019 Who’s In Charge at the Haines Borough? September 19, 2019 Manager Pursues Her Own Political Agenda September 13, 2019 Vote ‘No’ on Booze, Pot Taxes Tuesday; “Yes” in 2020 September 12, 2019 The Hidden Cost of Scott’s $10,000 Raise September 5, 2019 Borough Staff Will Decide Size of Borough Staff August 29, 2019 The Shame of Heath Scott’s $10,000 Raise August 29, 2019 On Expanding Police, Don’t Be Fooled, Again August 9, 2019 There’s Room to Trim Jobs at City Hall August 8, 2019 Like A Zombie That Won’t Die, Police Expansion Is Back July 26, 2019 Follow the Money: Police, Garbage Will Break the Haines Borough July 19, 2019 Heed Aquasension’s Message June 28, 2019 A Juicy Peach in Haines June 27, 2019 Act Now to Restore Nonprofit Grant Program June 18, 2019 Death of the Spelling Bee June 14, 2019 Logic of a Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax June 13, 2019 Secrets of the Borough Union Contract June 13, 2019 Pay Assembly Expenses, But Not More June 13, 2019 Let’s Not Blow Up the Boulder Again June 7, 2019 Aqueous Storage Is About Constantine June 7, 2019 Great Trees I Have Known June 7, 2019 An Inspired Waterfront May 23, 2019 Borough to Boost Roadside Events March 4, 2019 Raise Hell to Save Our King Salmon March 1, 2019 Pure Water, Fish Are Our Gold Standard March 1, 2019 What Has Real Value in This Town? March 1, 2019 Keep the 1 Percent Tour Tax, or Pay Dearly February 21, 2019 Let’s Rescue the Bald Eagle Festival February 1, 2019 Economic Plan Will Need Support, Some Wins November 15, 2018 Making University Timber A Win-Win November 8, 2018 Let’s Avoid A $30,000 Gamble November 8, 2018 What Next for Policing Rural Areas? October 26, 2018 Tribe’s Trail Launches Dream for Downtown October 25, 2018 Should Borough Build New Assembly Chambers? October 25, 2018 An Idea Worth Drinking To September 29, 2018 Vote “No” to Expanding Police Power September 26, 2018 Assembly Must Address Alaska Excursions September 26, 2018 8 Reasons to Vote for Borough Ballot Initiative #1 September 20, 2018 Public Servants Are Not Our Masters August 3, 2018 Different Ways of Policing August 2, 2018 Haines Borough Overreach August 2, 2018 Why the Alaska Legislature? July 27, 2018 Freeze New Tour Permits at Chilkoot April 12, 2018 The Karl Ward Revelations: Where We Begin April 6, 2018 Giant Timber Sale Raises Giant Questions April 6, 2018 Holding Up Bridges Begins at Home March 22, 2018 Provide Access to the Public’s Waters February 23, 2018 We’re Not a Tribe, and Why That’s Relevant February 17, 2018 Why We Need a $50K Economic Plan February 16, 2018 Thanks for Your Support August 25, 2017 Inheriting Bankruptcy August 25, 2017 Censure Me, Already June 29, 2017 Final Thoughts on the Budget June 16, 2017 One Small Step for Recreation June 16, 2017 Police Coverage Is a Service, Not a Right May 4, 2017 Let’s Mine the Arts April 2, 2017 Music: What’s It Worth to Us? March 4, 2017 More Money for Police? March 4, 2017 Taming the Borough Budget February 3, 2017 My View of Bill Seward’s Dismissal December 23, 2016 Why the police blotter is important November 17, 2016 Why I voted for harbor expansion November 10, 2016 The Borough in the Age of Trump November 10, 2016