The news just keeps getting worse for the ailing Alaska economy with BP officially announcing on Monday a plan to idle three oil productions rigs on the North Slope. The cut […]
Prudhoe Bay scaling back
Perfect place for terrorists
President Barack Obama has a problem, and his newfound friend from last summer — Alaska Gov. Bill Walker — just might have the perfect solution. Imagine a Republican-turned-Independent governor coming to the […]
What did the governor buy?
Two months before it was first publicly revealed that Washington, D.C. lobbyist Jack Ferguson, a former aide to Sen. Ted Stevens and Rep. Don Young, had been hired by Gov. Bill Walker to […]
Alaska’s biggest problem
Trust is a precious commodity. Once lost, it is difficult, often impossible, to regain. Friendships, marriages and business partnerships die when trust disappears. Many among the 40 to 50 percent of Americans […]
Rural lives matter too
The time has come to talk about the double-standard for wilderness search-and-rescue (SAR) that has existed in the state of Alaska for far too long.
Fish Board blows up again
Just when you think politics can’t get any stranger in Alaska, they get stranger. Gov. Bill Walker, who last year tried to stack the Alaska Board of Fisheries with commercial fishermen, on […]
Is this Alaska’s future?
FAIRBANKS — The deep cold of winter had settled in along the Chena River in the days before Christmas, locking the heart of Alaska’s only real Interior city in a deep freeze. […]
Round to Sarah?
Media counter-puncher Sarah Palin, the Wonder from Wasilla, was at it again Monday morning, coming back at the hosts of TV’s “Today” show after they attacked comments she made in Iowa last […]
Reporting 101/Updated
Alaska Dispatch News Ben Anderson editor has now pointed out that the organization back in September posted copies of the contracts Gov. Bill Walker signed with Art Hackney and Jack Ferguson when […]
Let’s hear the truth
Somewhere the truth exists about a now much-discussed meeting between Alice Rogoff, the owner of Alaska’s largest news organization, and Art Hackney, a consultant hired by Gov. Bill Walker to push the […]
