The recent Alaska Miners Association CVN paid commentary (11/7) misrepresents the integrity of our local doctors. The AMA director stated the letters to the CVN relating to a report of a large mine in Haines would lead to “brothels and prostitution rings”. The report said nothing of the sort.

In one of the letters to CVN, our local doctors’ expressed concerns based on a statistical review of the impacts of large mines on small, isolated…