Alaska natural gas pipeline czar Keith Meyer on Thursday joined a luncheon panel hosted by Commonwealth North to talk gas. He never touched his food. Maybe it was due to all […]
She’s baaccckkkk….
Two years after Anchorage TV reporter Charlo Greene became temporarily famous for saying, “F— it; I quit” live, on-air before walking out of a KTVA newscast, The Guardian is reiterating that it […]
AK bear-attack cluster
With four bear attacks in two months in an area about the size of Phoenix, Southeast Alaska has what can only be called a “bear-attack cluster.” Most of America is more […]
Grow Alaska how?
THIS STORY WAS UPDATED ON SEPT. 28, 2016 While Alaska Gov. Bill Walker was in Asia chasing a natural gas pipeline dream last week, Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott journeyed to the small […]
PFD mad, madder, maddest
Alaskans were Pretty, Friggin’, Darn angry on Friday, my friends. “Like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli,” as George Costanza once observed. It was an emotion that […]
Third-largest PFD ever – not
UPDATE: This story was updated on Sept. 28, 2016 to include the exact number of qualified PFD applicants for 2015 at 643,678. Some of the math in the story had to […]
Lost, found, abandoned
Do you stay, or do you go? Here’s the situation: You and your friends have just spent a couple of hours battling your way 20 miles down a muddy four-wheeler trail on […]
Alaska’s real problems
Mareesa Nicosia is a reporter from New York who journeyed to the tiny, Alaska village of Newtok late this summer to write about global warming because global warming is trending. Newtok is […]
Unhooked from hiring freeze
The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute has been freed from a state hiring freeze so it can advertise for a new domestic marketing director to work in Seattle. The starting salary is listed […]
Barrow under siege
The apocalypse is at the door of Alaska’s and America’s northernmost community. You can read about it on the internets. “A stroll along one of Barrow’s handful of roads shows just […]