THIS STORY WAS UPDATED ON SEPT. 28, 2016 While Alaska Gov. Bill Walker was in Asia chasing a natural gas pipeline dream last week, Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott journeyed to the small […]
Grow Alaska how?
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PFD mad, madder, maddest
Alaskans were Pretty, Friggin’, Darn  angry on Friday, my friends. “Like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli,” as George Costanza once observed. It was an emotion that […]
Third-largest PFD ever – not
UPDATE: This story was updated on Sept. 28, 2016 to include the exact number of qualified PFD applicants for 2015 at 643,678. Some of the math in the story had to […]
Lost, found, abandoned
Do you stay, or do you go? Here’s the situation: You and your friends have just spent a couple of hours battling your way 20 miles down a muddy four-wheeler trail on […]
This just in….
This is a craigmedred.news exclusive. Craigmedred.news has obtained what appears to be an unedited copy of the transcript of Gov. Bill Walker’s pre-recorded statement on the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend. His statement […]
Alaska’s real problems
Mareesa Nicosia is a reporter from New York who journeyed to the tiny, Alaska village of Newtok late this summer to write about global warming because global warming is trending. Newtok is […]
PFD suit for dummies
If the Legislature is legally required to appropriate money to the Alaska “dividend fund” every year, Gov. Bill Walker is legally entitled to veto the appropriation, and those Alaskans mad about getting […]
#Let’sfixjournalism
Commentary Journalism as the old generation of journalists knew it is dead, and it is time for the cash-strapped University of Alaska to take the lead on the new path forward. It […]
A $2,100 per person question
Mat-Su Valley seventh-grader Shania Sommer revealed the 2015 dividend/State of Alaska photo Joined by two old, Republican war horses, Democrat Sen. Bill Wielechowski of Anchorage today filed to suit to stop […]
Unhooked from hiring freeze
The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute has been freed from a state hiring freeze so it can advertise for a new domestic marketing director to work in Seattle. The starting salary is listed […]
