Letters to the editor | April 5, 2024

Letters to the editor | April 5, 2024

Serving up ‘derision and division’ in letters I am, by any measure, a news junkie. I read at least one newspaper a day. I watch the news from all major media sources, and listen to NPR daily. For days I’ve been watching with horror, stories of the fall of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, and the loss of life including Hispanics filling in potholes. Nowhere did I hear disparaging remarks about Francis Scott Key himself until I read in the Friday, Ma…

Letters to the Editor: April 5, 2024

City council is rubber-stamping more residential building plans for the northwest side of the city. This has all the makings of a future planning catastrophe.

Letters to the editor – April 5, 2024

Moral guidance for everyoneFollowing parliament’s unanimous approval of the next president of the republic, questions like ‘What makes a good president?’ or ‘How should a president act?’ start to come to mind. Fortunately, one can visualise such questions thanks to the latest satirical drama called Il-President, currently available to view on GO TV’s TOKIS streaming...

From The Editor – Apr 2024

We’re entering that time of year when winter has a hard time letting go to spring. But if you look at it from another perspective, perhaps it isn’t a power struggle at all. Maybe it’s a process of allowing moisture in the form of snow into the soil with a slow melt that doesn’t create

To the Editor

Youth education in shooting sports To the Editor: The weekend of March 22-24 three Petersburg students with Devil’s Thumb Shooters participated in the Western Regional Junior Target Championships in Las Vegas, Nevada. Hannah Slaven, Marcus Anderson, and Cayden Turland joined ten Anchorage area students on the ALASKA YESS state team. The tournament in Las Vegas had many teams from all over the midw...