{"id":114853,"date":"2025-01-05T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/opinion\/appreciative-of-win-gruenings-columns-even-if-not-always-in-agreement\/"},"modified":"2025-01-05T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T06:30:00","slug":"appreciative-of-win-gruenings-columns-even-if-not-always-in-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/2025\/01\/05\/appreciative-of-win-gruenings-columns-even-if-not-always-in-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Appreciative of Win Gruening&#8217;s columns, even if not always in agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/opinion\/opinion-ten-years-and-counting-with-the-juneau-empire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his Dec. 28 column<\/a> Win Gruening reflected on his ten years writing biweekly commentaries for the Empire, and commented on how lucky Juneau is to have its own community newspaper. I certainly agree. I enjoy reading Mr. Gruening&rsquo;s thoughtful columns. I often disagree with his views, but I urge him to continue sharing them with us for us as long as he is blessed with the ability to do so. Like the Empire itself, Juneau is lucky to have Win Gruening.<\/p>\n<p>Gregg Erickson<\/p>\n<p>Juneau and Bend, Oregon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/opinion\/opinion-ten-years-and-counting-with-the-juneau-empire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his Dec. 28 column<\/a> Win Gruening reflected on his ten years writing biweekly commentaries for the Empire, and commented on how lucky Juneau is to have its own community newspaper. I certainly agree. I enjoy reading Mr. Gruening&rsquo;s thoughtful columns. I often disagree with his views, but I urge him to continue sharing them with us for us as long as he is blessed with the ability to do so. Like the Empire itself, Juneau is lucky to have Win Gruening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1129,"featured_media":114854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[97,106],"class_list":["post-114853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters","category-opinion","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Appreciative of Win Gruening&#8217;s columns, even if not always in agreement - Juneau Empire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/2025\/01\/05\/appreciative-of-win-gruenings-columns-even-if-not-always-in-agreement\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Appreciative of Win Gruening&#8217;s columns, even if not always in agreement - Juneau Empire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In his Dec. 28 column Win Gruening reflected on his ten years writing biweekly commentaries for the Empire, and commented on how lucky Juneau is to have its own community newspaper. 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