Commentary The United States is a country where appearance matters – matters a lot; a country where fears sometimes run wild; and a country today caught up in a pre-occupation with self. […]
Ban scary
Idit-a-fable
Commentary This story has been updated The Washington Post used to a be a newspaper you could respect, or at least I could. My journalism career began in the Watergate era when […]
Tell me a lie
Commentary The time has come to accept that many people want fake news even if they don’t admit it. The time has to come recognize many people need fake news even if they don’t […]
For the dogs
Commentary If – as the modern Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race likes to claim – the event is “all about the dogs,” the time has come for The Last Great Race to […]
#Whatclickbait
This story has been updated with a general location of the sighting. Clickbait used to be the prey of shabby journalists and “some blogger probably sittin’ there in their parent’s basement wearing […]
Nature did it
News analysis The Ice Age ended almost 12,000 years ago, and yet – if a team of German and Norwegian scientists are to be believed – it continues to influence earth’s […]
I-did-a-what?
News analysis The most telling observation about the problem today facing the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race comes midway through a December report from a consultant summarizing an anonymous survey earlier sent […]
Old north
Commentary The sorry state of vision plaguing Alaska’s aging, political elite can today be condensed to one word: North. North is the region to which the Midwest is trying to rebrand […]
Geographic thievery
Commentary With Super Bowl LII headed for Minneapolis in February, cold is the new hot, or so Minnesotans would like you to believe. Having already stolen the fat bike from Alaska, the […]
Idit-a-doping
News analysis To hear Iditarod dog mushers of today tell it, nobody ever doped a dog in Alaska. Just ask them. They’ll give you an earful. No one ever culled a dog […]
