What a week in Alaska journalism, and it’s only Thursday. First we get the KTVA cowboys staking out an aggressive mama moose on the Glenn Highway bike path for more than an […]
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They laid Jim Macknicki to rest on Thursday. He was a man who spent most of his adult life doing the most thankless job in journalism with devotion and integrity. I knew him […]
Whose pasture?
News analysis On a three-three vote, the Alaska Board of Fisheries has allowed to move forward a plan to dump another 18 million or so pink salmon fry into the Port of […]
Be afraid
A new study of cyclists riding the bike paths and streets of London found almost three out of four regularly worry motorists are out to kill them. One can […]
Plugging in
News analysis Hard though this might be to believe in Alaska – where the single-engine Super Cub aircraft that ended production almost a quarter century ago remains a cherished form of transportation […]
Misery
BROAD PASS – The precipitation was falling as slush on Friday, April 27, and it was hard not to think of Chris McCandless, Alaska’s most famous nobody, as the SUV sped south […]
Dogged journalism
FAIRBANKS – I apparently did a bad thing on Friday. I went by the office of someone involved in a news story to ask questions face to face, something journalists used […]
Gone guy
The whining, can you hear it? The screech and the wail, A man can’t help but fear it; It screams of time to bail From the car-filled Chugach bowl with its ugly, […]
Everyday journalism
If Facebook = journalism = Facebook, why does the world need journalism? This might be the number one issue facing journalism today, but it’s unclear whether it is recognized by all journalism businesses. […]
Save a life
Alaska “Mushing Mortician,” Scott Janssen, and pathologist friend Jim Lanier are now fully recovered from their near-death experience of March, and the 2018 Alaska Iditarod Trail Sled Dog seems already ancient history. […]
