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Columns & Sections

Alaska Scapegoat Ranch
Holmland Insecurity
a message from your Alaska Scapegoat Ranch
by Wilkins Micawber, prop.

Book Reviews
Taking Liberties
Lost Liberties: Ashcroft and the Assault on Personal Freedom
edited by Cynthia Brown
review by David A. James

Calendar of Events

Cartoon
Incubus Americani
by Dan Darrow

Classified

corrections to the previous edition

Editorial
The Annoying Noises of Spring

Firebreak
Smoke Detectors Can Save Lives
by Sarah Wolfe

Letters to the Editor
I.R. Reverent
Adam Meahan Ohlfahrt

poetry
"DST"
by Shanna Karella

"Return of the Subarctic Sun"
by Dave Klein

The Postal News
Local Artists Exhibit
public announcement

Obituary
Sam Dilley
by Doug Davis

Video Dreamland & Movie Reviews
Lost in Translation
Secondhand Lions
American Splendor
Once Upon A Time In Mexico
Intolerable Cruelty
Under the Tuscan Sun
movie reviews by Thela Clayton

FEATURES

Anchorage Walkers Run Over by New Roads
guest opinion by Cheryl Richardson

The Anchorage Comprehensive Plan of 1991 offered some good solutions for improving life in Anchorage. So why isn't it being followed? Why the mantra to "Build More Roads"?

Baghdad Dispatches: Water and Health
by Dahr Jamail

More from our Baghdad correspondent: articles from the end of his stay in Iraq, covering health problems caused by radiation, tainted water supplies, and minimal electricity.

Fire and Ice
story & photos by Terry Glendinning

The Finnish artist Marco Casagrande came to town again recently, and Yukon Quest firesleds resulted. Mark Fejes of Well and Good Art Gallery and the FLOW project worked with him on this installation, and the group is planning more.

Local Et Cetera III
public announcement

Two years have come and gone yet again, and it's time for a new edition of the community book and telephone directory. Update your information today!

Mister Stinger
by Jeffrey A. Rogers

Solutions to road rage: new disarmament and communication techniques for use with the rude individuals at whom you are currently only able to mouth unheard obsenities.

One Year Later: Reflections on a Year of War
by Liam Wescott

Some thoughts on Iraq and our country's future from one of the anti-war protestors who have been standing on the corner of Geist and University every Saturday afternoon for the last year and a half.

Results of the People's Forum on Alaska's Future
tally compiled by Richard Seifert

A true/false quiz and survey passed out at the People's Forum on Alaska's Future reveal some interesting things about Alaska's economy, possible solutions for the fiscal gap, information about the "Alaska Disconnect," and just how limited in scope the Conference of Alaskans may have been.

Spam Spectacle III
by Captain Hans M. Nitirite

Spam: the final frontier. Our mission? To explore strange new substances and boldly go where no sane man went before.

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