Thirty-six years ago, the late Joe McGinnis authored a best-selling book about Alaska titled “Going to Extremes.” It went to extremes. Widely popular outside the 49th state, it was not so popular […]
New boom just like old boom?
Predatory double standards
The federal government used tax payer dollars to kill tens of thousand of coyotes (which we now know are little more than skinny wolves) along with hundreds of bears and full-grown wolves […]
Wink-wink, Fairbanks
Hang onto your muskrat-skin hats Alaska. The word from the web today is that Lady Gaga is about to move to the cold, dark heart of the north. KM8News.com rattled the tubes […]
Tax the Alaska PIGS
COMMENTARY CHITINA – Alaska has a revenue problem of which everyone must by now be aware. But it also appears to have an untapped resource that has gone unconsidered: PIGS. No, we’re […]
Dead dog season
The temperature in Anchorage, Alaska hit 75 degrees on Wednesday and in the sun on the south-facing slopes of the Chugach Mountain above the city it was 80 or hotter. This was, […]
Alaska’s everyday guns
c I walked up to a policeman yesterday carrying one of the world’s most powerful handguns in a holster in my right hand. He noticed. How could he not? But he didn’t […]
Dividing America
The terrorists are winning. Leave no doubt about that when the New York Times, the country’s premiere news organization, editorializes in this way:
Alaska: It can kill you
Updated: June 13, 2016 If ever there was a week to illustrate the potential dangers that lurk on the very edge of civilization’s foothold in Alaska, this was it. Four confirmed dead […]
New Age of Mythology
Commentary As an internet powered by what are supposedly legitimate news organizations populates itself with half-truths and whole lies, one cannot help but wonder if the U.S. is entering a New Age […]
Asking for trouble
Commentary Does any of this sound familiar? “A moose on the rampage attacked two women walking with their dogs, injuring both severely. (The people, not the dogs. Grammar is in trouble […]
