A news analysis In one compound sentence the Associated Press on Saturday summarized so much of what is wrong with journalism today. Here is what the AP reported: “Alaskans often take great […]
Something’s wrong here
Commentary Journalism today faces a nearly universal and very simple business problem that almost no one in the business talks about: quality control. To be perfectly honest, too, the problem often […]
Just chillin’
Commentary The northern end of Alaska’s Cook Inlet remained thick with ice on Saturday as the 49th state marched into a chill, snowy April that was a white world away from a […]
Liar, liar
The sun was bright in Anchorage on Friday. The bitter north wind had finally stopped blowing. And the temperature had climbed to 20 degrees. The day felt positively balmy. But it […]
Ever-changing I-rod
Part II of a series Who was first to put a coat on a short-haired dog in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race appears unclear. If you know, feel free […]
A different Iditarod
Part 1 of a series Thirty-four years ago, I first put journalistic boots on the ground to cover the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. It was not the race that […]
Fake is everywhere
Fake news is here to stay no matter what anyone does because it is a marketable product. It satisfies the human desire for a good story even if it’s about a bad […]
Last Great Race
Tough Iditarod Trail
deemed “unsafe”
Ethiconomics
Ode to Abbie Hoffman’s counter-culture best seller: “Steal This Book.”
Of moose and men
If a moose dies in the center of Alaska’s urban heartland…. Well, suffice to say, it’s not the same as if one of the big ungulates wanders into the Yukon River village […]