Commentary America, we have a problem. The moderator of the great public debate so vital to the functioning of a democracy has allowed itself to be compromised. Yes, we’re talking about […]
Who got your fish?
For decades now, Cook Inlet fishermen of all stripes have been feuding bitterly over shares of the annual return of sockeye salmon, and now comes an indication that all that time they […]
The truth police

Commentary The new truthers have latched onto “fake news,” and the need to clean up the internet. It is a good and holy cause, but the people invested in this idea are […]
Cold, dark and dying

December in Alaska is always a grim time of year buoyed only temporarily by holiday cheer. The shortening of the days is impossible to avoid. Nine-to-5ers can go from home to […]
Russia at it again?

Commentary Is it possible Russia is trying to co-opt Americans with fake news once again as the Washington Post charged shortly after president-elect Republican Donald Trump upset Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton in […]
#Journalism’slastdays
Commentary “We have met the enemy and he is us.” Pogo American journalism is dying, and it’s about time journalists own up to their part in this disaster. Time to peer in […]
Enough Trump-anioa

Commentary Calm the hell down my good liberal friends. America is not overnight going to be transformed into “The Apprentice,” let alone Nazi Germany. No matter how much President-elect Donald Trump […]
The pathfinder

Give Sarah Palin her due. No matter how you feel about Alaska’s former half-term governor or President-elect Donald Trump, there is no denying the former showed the latter the road to the […]
Winning the peace

Commentary Someone will today win the war to be President of the United States. Some friends and acquaintances say that if the winner is Democrat Hilary Clinton, it will be a disaster […]
Why, why, why?

Commentary Alaska Senate candidate Joe Millers’s “brown-shirted security detail (that) put a Jewish reporter in handcuffs at (a) public event” is gone now, but for a time last week it lived in […]