Karen Hock picks up trash Saturday on Sandy Beach during the International Coastal Clean Up. Volunteers braved blustery conditions to clean up Juneau’s beaches as they took part in the event.

The preliminary decision by the U.S. Forest Service to reject a balanced conservation alternative to the Logjam timber sale on Prince of Wales Island was a disappointment.

To heck with President Obama and his socialism, I say, I am an Alaskan! Now, if you will excuse me, I need go make sure my Permanent Fund Dividend will clear OK, get my winter unemployment paperwork started, and write my health insurance company a check for $1,000 a month for one person, for Cobra, what a deal (steal?).

The Juneau-Douglas Crimson Bears did not slow down on Saturday at the 2009 Ketchikan Cross Country Invite, as they continued their hot streak toward the Region V meet in Juneau on Saturday.

It’s not every day a player who’s not yet had even a cup of coffee in the big leagues gets traded for a likely candidate to enter Cooperstown as a future hall of famer.

FAIRBANKS – If Rep. Scott Kawasaki, D-Fairbanks, has been irritable this week, it’s for good reason.

TUKTOYAKTUK, Northwest Territories – Henry Jr. slept in the arms of his father the unhappy hunter, who pondered the future of the boy born last Arctic winter, in the depths of a polar bear season he’d rather forget.

Economic collapse is not an anniversary anyone wants to mark, but we note it this month.

I blame Elvis. With Chuck Berry, Little Richard and other icons from rock’s first generation, he pioneered an incendiary idea: that music could be more than a medium of entertainment, that it could and should also be a tool of cultural revolution. It was not, after all, just music that moved town fathers to ban rock concerts and angry men with sledgehammers to smash jukeboxes containing rock records.

This editorial first appeared in the Anchorage Daily News: