News analysis Do the dominate mushers in Alaska’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race know more about the 1,000-mile, ultramarathon’s first, high-profile, sled-dog doping case than has been publicly revealed? The question has […]
Urine science
Last Great Mess
When the guilty go unnamed, everyone becomes guilty, and so it is the mushers in Alaska’s biggest sporting event have become a bunch of dopers. Thank the Iditarod Trail Committee, which this […]
Norway not
Commentary Norway’s version of the Alaska Permanent Fund hit the $1 trillion mark this week. That’s $1,000 billion, or about 16 times the $61.2 billion the state of Alaska is […]
Reporting matters
Commentary In one short post at craigmedred.news, Pete Snow raises an interesting point everybody seems to be missing in the discussion of these times about journalism bad, good and dying. “Craig, […]
Prestidigitabias
Commentary In these times, when Americans daily parse the media for any sign of political bias, it is hard to know what to make of the Alaska Dispatch News headlining “Ben Stevens, […]
Thank you Alice
Commentary With Alaska’s largest newspaper today bankrupt and frightfully close to the verge of disappearing forever from the scene, there are a lot of people lining up to bash owner and publisher […]
The fallacy
Commentary The Alaska Dispatch News, the 49th state’s largest newspaper and most-visited online news site, is teetering on the edge of financial collapse, and some on the right in one of the […]
Wilted news
Commentary Every thinking American wants quality journalism, but who defines what qualifies? The country’s media elite now think they should be the arbiter. The elite have banded together to form the News Media Alliance. It’s […]
Killer Tweets
Commentary With the national media and President Donald J. Trump engaged in World Twitter War I (WTW I), with the Alaska media being led around by media releases, and with social media […]
Size matters
Commentary Patrick “Jack” Cooper was a 16-year-old boy killed by a predatory black bear, and now some want to blame him for his own death. There is little doubt running from […]
