Commentary Homo sapiens male and female are members of a singular species separated by gender. Science is only beginning to find out how separated. Scientists in Sweden have now documented a big […]
Together apart
State of Stagnation
Commentary When did Alaska get so damn old? The median age in Anchorage in 1970 was 23.2. It is now 32.2, but sometimes feels like 82.2. As the rest of the […]
Bigger fish
The Kaplan Herald appears to be an equal-opportunity plagiarist. Forget stories borrowed from the Anchorage Daily News in Podunk, Alaska. Kaplan appears to have moved on to bigger and potentially more profitable targets […]
Intertheft
Commentary Unable to read an Anchorage Daily News story because you don’t want to pay to subscribe? Try the Kaplan Herald. You can read a lot of the exact same ADN copy […]
Fighting the tide
News analysis After three years of work, a University of Alaska Fairbanks study of the state’s commercial fishing industry has reached one conclusion nobody in the 49th state wants to talk about […]
Our war
Commentary We have met the enemy, and he is Donald Trump for he is us. Or too many of us. Is there a better time than Christmas to reflect on the vicious […]
An open letter
Commentary Dear Alice Rogoff, old friend: Finally it is over. You are free of David Rubenstein at last. It is sad when relationships end even when it is better that way. […]
Forhidden news
Commentary The Talkeetna Bachelor Society auction got raucous and a little raunchy over the weekend on the way to raising more than $23,000 for its Fund for Women and Children in Crisis. The […]
Idiocracy
Commentary Sometimes, if you have spent your life in journalism, it is hard to look at some of what passes for reportage these days without being forced to ponder whether a once-valued […]
Nothing news
Commentary Dexter is safe, and it’s time for someone to ask the obvious: “What the hell just happened here? Was this news or a distraction from news?” Dexter, in case you […]
