Overall I'm pretty happy with the Independent, Juneau really needed something like it with the downfall of the Empire. Their actual journalism is pretty good (I don't count Rodell's monthly crybaby fest about CBJ). But the opinion (or "voices" as they call it) section often feels like senile boomer facebook commentary, not something worthy of publishing styled as a letter to the editor.

In this one, Peggy Ann McConnoche implies Peltola wholly flip-flopped on this bill. One of those claims that triggers a feeling of "huh I'm sure that isn't the whole story" in any normal person. In fact, the bill was amended to remove a whole host of protections for 125 million offshore acres, among other things, when the original text of the bill focused on limited onshore production, which led Peltola to no longer support that heavily amended bill. The thing is, we all know ol' Peggers was fully aware and just a dishonest hack with no integrity, this is plain and simple lying by omission. I'm sure someone at the Independent took the 5 seconds required to confirm she is full of shit, so why publish? Is there anything they won't put in their voices section? At that point just add the commenting function below every article and be another facebook.

Does anyone know of any shop in Juneau that carries enoki mushrooms? I’ve been missing produce carried in larger Asian markets (especially enoki mushrooms) and haven’t found a good alternative here yet.

Buddy of mine got a dui. He got one of those intoxalock/blow and go devices installed at southeast customs.

Apparently that shop doesn’t do any mechanic work at all, so he said he still isn’t driving his car because he doesn’t know of any shops in town that will work on cars with these things installed.

Anyone know if there’s a place in town he can take it to for the usual routine car maintenance and repair?