Opinion
The roof caught fire on a gusty September morning in 1934. Nome businessman Ralph Lomen was among the crowd of people gathered on Front Street, feeling helpless as he watched the Golden Gate Hotel...
Empty shelves where produce should be. Coolers once stocked with yogurt, milk, cream and other dairy are yawning spaces of emptiness. Last week’s newspaper that should be in the stores on Thursday,...
The state of Alaska, the City of Nome and school districts statewide all share the same predicament: An unbalanced budget with little prospect of increased revenue and certainty of rising prices. We...
Snow is on the ground, hopefully here to stay, and we hear the roar of snowmachines reverberating through town. It is the sound of winter, as is the howl of a dog team. The message of co-existence on...
On Friday, a press release landed in my email box, informing me that the U.S. Coast Guard hosted a “Senior Leader Arctic Orientation”, a whirlwind tour that put 30 people into Nome for a few hours...
It’s May and that means graduation season is upon us. After two years of uncertainty due to the pandemic and under the threat that in- person instruction could be disrupted at any given moment, let’s...
Members of Congress and Senators are working for you. Remind them, especially this week, of their mandate and remind them of the oath they swore to protect the Constitution from enemies, foreign and...
Impeaching a president is a grave undertaking. It is not taken lightly and should not be dimished by name calling. Instead, we ought to listen to the public servants who are lined up to testify and...
To the editor,
I’m sending this as a reply to your editorial of November 7, 2019. I’m a daily follower of the impeachment process, in fact I’ve been a daily follower of Donald Trump on CNN since...
To the editor: In regards to last week’s Op-Ed penned by Sen. Sullivan
Senator Sullivan gave Nome residents some more of his dumb. Sullivan is clearly not sensitive to the tremendous problems that...