News analysis The “window” that former Alaska Gov. Bill Walker and his half-million-dollar Texas sidekick spent years suggesting had opened for an Alaska natural gas pipeline never did, and now it’s […]
A blue future
Iditarod, take two
If Alaska’s largest newspaper is to be believed, you can now add the so-called “Last Great Race” to the filmed events of which you must ask “is it real or is it […]
Good-bye Gold Loop
The “Gold Loop Trail” especially planned for the pandemic-plagued Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race of 2021 is no more thanks to another body blow from Mother Nature. Iditarod Race Marshall Mark Nordman […]
3 layers better
In the wake of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) proclaiming two masks better than one for halting the spread of the sometimes deadly SARS-CoV-2 virus, it only […]
Big, sick nation
Some of the roots of the ongoing pandemic deadliness in the U.S. were planted long before the SARS-CoV-2 virus arrived in North America if an exhaustive, 475-page report released Wednesday by the […]
Dead by design?
With the U.S. now the world leader by far in deaths linked to COVID-19, isn’t it about time Americans recognize there is more to this situation than simply the newly emergent SARS-CoV-2 […]
Frozen good fun
Somewhere in the frozen wilds north of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, former Canadian Olympian Lindsay Gauld is dreaming of the Iditarod Trail (ITI). Before a global pandemic changed everything, this was to be […]
Winning losers
The global pandemic is causing problems for salmon farmers, but that is far from good news for Alaska commercial fishermen, processors or the few 49th state communities with economies still heavily dependent […]
Pushing fear
Stop the COVID-19 madness. Just stop the friggin’ COVID-19 madness. SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes this disease, is a nasty little pathogen, and everyone should take it seriously. But encouraging a moral […]
Bankruptcy pays
Stiffed on a $119 pair of boots by millionaire Alice Rogoff in 2017 – the former owner and publisher of what is today the Anchorage Daily News (ADN.com) – the proprietor of […]
