Good cops bad cops
By: Diana HaeckerReasonable citizens have repeatedly addressed City fathers to provide reliable and honest public safety in Nome. Their pleas should be heard as one of the most fundamental tasks of...
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By: Diana HaeckerIt is 2018 and women are still not treated as equals in America. I’m not even talking about equal pay or opportunity, but equal in terms of being afforded the promise of safety and...
View ArticleFull Transparency
By: Diana HaeckerWe are being fed incomplete information at all levels of government these days. On the international level, Saudi Arabia has yet to get its story straight about the country’s...
View ArticleThe Wall
Government that holds hostages typically is not good government. It is a failing strategy of President Donald J. Trump to have to resort to extreme measures and gamble that emergency declarations will...
View ArticleRaising honorable citizens
Do we expect too much from government? Listening to Governor Mike Dunleavy’s state of the state address, he pledged to make Alaska a safer place, by replacing SB 91, addressing the opioid crisis, and...
View ArticleCutting Eduction funding is a bad strategy
By: Diana HaeckerFor a guy who used to be an educator and who ran on a platform of restoring trust in government, Governor Mike Dunleavy just sent the opposite message to Alaskans, namely that...
View ArticleFood Security
By: Diana HaeckerGovernor Dunleavy toes the line with President Trump in disregarding the importance of climate change for the survival of the world as we know it. Instead of refocusing our collective...
View ArticleEDITIORIAL: Quid pro quo
As we see in this week's poll from The Nome Nugget’s website, most people are staying updated on the daily deluge of news streaming from Washington on the impeachment inquiry into President Donald J....
View ArticleLETTERS: Port development; PETA
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...
View ArticleLetters: Impeachment
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 he...
View ArticleEditorial: Impeachment
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...
View ArticleEditorial: Impeached
By: Diana HaeckerMembers 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...
View ArticleEditorial: Graduation
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...
View ArticleOpinion: Arctic Orientation
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...
View ArticleShare the Trail
By: Diana HaeckerSnow 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...
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