Bear deaths in Angoon under investigation - Anchorage Daily News/AP
Cole: BP again talking about selling Alaska assets, London newspaper reports - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Obama to propose $50 billiion in infrastructure projects; stimulus continues - Washington Times
Murkowski, Miller and Sealaska measure - Juneau Empire
As clock ticks, Bush tax cuts about to expire - NPR
Congressional charities pulling in corporate cash - NYTimes
Bradner: Alaskans will get to know Miller, McAdams - Alaska Journal of Commerce
Tea Party a double edge sword for GOP - NYTimes
Soros launches frontal assault on Tea Party - Infowars.com
A wall to remember; Seattle memorial for Japanese WWII internment - Seattle Times
Huge outpouring of support for Murkowski, aide says - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Why aren't employers hiring? - NPR
Grisham on writing as a job - NYTimes
Abused toddler dies after spending two years in hospital - Chicago Tribune
Housing woes; let market collapse? - NYTimes
Gas storage moves ahead; Kenai council OKs rezoning - Kenai Peninsula Clarion
Mexican drug cartels terrorize, cripple Pemex in parts of Burgos Basin - LATimes
Not much of a 'summer' for Dems pitching recovery - Washington Times
Dad bitten as he fends off coyote, saves 2-year-old - NYPost
Valdez fish derby disqualifies record halibut; honors angler's honesty - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Alaskan Independence Party picks Michigan militia founder for ballot - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner/AP

Editorials

Labor Day

Let’s take a few moments today from our end-of-summer chores to remember the debt we all owe America’s workers for making this great nation what it is now.

Labor Day, though, is a national holiday born in strife. More than a century ago, when a Congress nervous about President Grover Cleveland’s crushing of a nationwide Pullman railroad strike, added it to the calendar.

The right thing to do

When the U.S. Justice Department without explanation dropped its investigation of sex abuse allegations against Bill Allen many Alaskans were flabbergasted.

But Alaska Attorney General Dan Sullivan says prosecutors now are examining allegations the former Veco Corp. chief had sex with a 15-year-old prostitute. Allen was a key federal witness in a string of Alaska political corruption cases.

Run

This will be a long weekend in more than one respect for Bill Walker and Sen. Lisa Murkowski. They both lost their GOP primary election bids, but are considering whether to continue their campaigns either under another party’s banner or as a write-ins.

We urge both of them to continue their campaigns.

Long way to go

A Rasmussen Reports poll shows Alaskans favoring Republican incumbent Gov. Sean Parnell over Democrat Ethan Berkowitz in the gubernatorial race, but only by a modest 10 percentage points.

A telephone survey Aug. 31 of 500 likely voters in Alaska showed Parnell with 53 percent of the vote, while Berkowitz got 43 percent.  Two percent said they preferred some other candidate, while 2 percent - and, again, we wonder who these folks are - said they were unsure.

Walker should continue

Bill Walker is thinking about continuing his campaign for governor after finishing as runner-up in the GOP gubernatorial primary by winning about a third of the votes in the six-way race .

He should quickly finish reviewing his options and come to the same conclusion we did: He must continue his race, perhaps as a third-party candidate. The Associated Press, for instance, reported Don Wright of Fairbanks, the Alaskan Independence Party pick, has withdrawn from the race.

Thanks, Lisa

That was then . . .

With Joe Miller’s vow to cut federal spending in Alaska if he unseats Lisa Murkowski in the GOP primary and goes on to beat his Democrat opponent, you have to wonder if he held that view when he ran for House District 8 and whether he will go on to become his own biggest problem.

Miller says the growing national debt requires belt tightening that should include cutting back on federal dollars Alaska receives. But has he always felt that way?