Does Alaska really need to save daylight?
My daylight saving time irritation just recently started to wane. Before we changed the clocks two weekends ago, I was getting really into waking up to sun. Then we were plunged back into darkness and it felt unusually cruel. It’s only an hour, but for days I was sucking down coffee and feeling resentful. “Give me one good reason for Daylight Savings Time in Alaska,” I wrote on Facebook last week. Twenty readers responded. The best reason: so we could be in line with the rest of the country. Since when did we care about that? Anna Fairclough, a state representative from Eagle River, has a bill inching through the legislature that would cancel DST, making Alaska like Hawaii and Arizona, where there would be no spring forward and fall back. Fairclough told me she first started looking at it because constituents told her they didn’t want the government to control the time. My mind filled with possible slogans for such a campaign like “Keep your laws off my alarm clock!” or “Real Americans
