“Wherever the mission takes us, we'll be there. Whether it's here in the snowy part of Alaska or way down south. We can go anywhere and get the job done.” - Captain Mary Katey Hays, commanding officer of the USS Ted Stevens.
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By James Brooks
Korea has not agreed to invest $54 billion in the proposed trans-Alaska natural gas pipeline — and has not even agreed to invest at all, its national industry minister, Kim Jung-kwan, told reporters in Seoul on Thursday.
(Bureau of Land Management photo)
By James Brooks
Alaska’s decades-long quest to obtain millions of acres of land from the federal government under the Alaska Statehood Act is getting closer to an end.
But because the state is getting closer to its goal, its requests now exceed a limit in federal law.
(Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)
By Yereth Rosen
Before he was known to Alaskans as “Uncle Ted,” Ted Stevens was a decorated war hero, making dangerous missions behind enemy lines as part of the Flying Tigers, a group of American pilots who fought the Japanese in the China-Burma-India theater of World War II.
Stevens represented Alaska as one of the longest-serving U.S. senators in history, and is now being honored by the U.S. Navy with a namesake warship.
(Photo by Corinne Smith/Alaska Beacon)
COMMENTARY
By Matt Schultz
Mary Peltola’s use of hateful speech, including the R-slur and the F-slur, is more than a political matter. It cuts to the core of who we choose to be: Will we be a people that allows for words like this to be wielded without consequence? Or do we decide what is acceptable for ourselves, our candidates, our party, and our nation by demanding accountability and apology?
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