Dangerous overspending
By: Diana HaeckerA Republican-run Congress suddenly forgot what they ranted about during the Obama years concerning the national debt and increasing budget deficits. Now, all those budget hawks and...
View ArticleIditarod 46
By: Diana HaeckerDedication, hard work, tireless caring for the wellbeing of the team and putting the interest of the whole team before one’s own agenda is what it takes to prepare and successfully run...
View ArticleTariffs hit home
By: Diana HaeckerThe paper that this newspaper is printed on comes from Canada. For many years, American printing companies and newspapers have imported Canadian newsprint because there are not enough...
View ArticleOpen Water
By: Diana HaeckerThis winter was a tough one for us here in Western Alaska. It was no doubt a very heavy snow year and most of us were busy shoveling and removing snow most of the time. Flat light and...
View ArticleMining Safety Sound
By: Diana Haecker With horror I watched videos shared on social media that showed a monstrous cutter head gold mining dredge custom-made to tear up the bottom of Safety Sound and Bonanza Channel in...
View ArticlePublic notice needed
By: Diana HaeckeSafety Sound and Bonanza Channel are threatened by one of the most invasive mining proposals ever to reach Nome. We do place our faith in the public process of permitting, or vetting...
View ArticleHuman Migration
By: Diana HaeckerThe current immigration debate is raging across the nation, fueled by inconclusive tweets and messages by the president. One day he’s for the zero-tolerance approach - whispered in his...
View ArticleNew caretakers
By: Diana HaeckerThe Nome Nugget has new caretakers. The ownership of Alaska’s oldest newspaper recently changed hands from the Estate of Nancy L. McGuire to longtime employees, my husband Nils Hahn...
View ArticleGet involved
The Nome Common Council’s decisions are only as good as the comments they hear from citizens who go before it. Without any public input, on the record, the Council is getting away with inaction on some...
View ArticleStewardship
By: Diana HaeckerWe live in a place of abundance and this time of the year reminds us of the blessings that we have all around us here in Nome. Fish are arriving in great numbers in our rivers. The...
View ArticleWe are not the enemy
By: Diana HaeckerPresident Trump vigorously fans the flames of hatred against the press by repeating that the media and the free press of this country are the “enemy of the American people.” It is...
View ArticleBuckle up
By: Diana HaeckerNOAA Fisheries came through and broke some very significant news not only for us here at Norton Sound, but for the entire Bering Sea and the world. The scientists couldn’t find the...
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