In one of the sadder moments in the history of modern journalism in Alaska, Tony Hopfinger, the founder and former editor of AlaskaDispatch.com, has sued former business partner and good friend Alice […]
Trump(ed) in Alaska
As you read this, renegade Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is in the process of being contained in the north. And what is happening in Alaska is happening all across the country. […]
The real AK bites back
Commentary North of the Alaska Range mountains, global warming took a Tuesday setback in that snowy way that tends to make some people skeptical of climate change. Call this the normal variation […]
Withering Alaska news?
The statewide news you get in Alaska – particularly hourly radio updates – might be about to take a hit. How big a hit? No one knows. How important a hit? […]
The Trail Blazer
The time has come to give Alaskan Sarah Palin her due for putting the lie to an old adage often misattributed to Mark Twain, but once adhered to as if the country’s […]
New ADN sues old ADN
Two years after buying the Anchorage Daily News for $34 million, Alice Rogoff — wife of financier and philanthropist David Rubenstein — is suing the California newspaper chain that made the sale […]
Winning, but still losing
Alaska moose hunter John Sturgeon took on the National Park Service in federal court over access to the Nation River and won. His winnings should be enough to buy a decent backpack. […]
The great AK tax fantasy
Joe Panacea lives in Texas, or is it Oklahoma? He flies to Alaska once a month, or is it every two weeks? He (or is it a she) pockets paychecks worth $100,000 […]
Fed fight on subsistence
Alaska’s regulatory subsistence caldron is bubbling again as the federal government tries to rid 49th state wildlife refuges of bear and wolf hunting practices distasteful to some people. Americans used to hunting […]
Better kept quiet
With the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race caught in a wrongheaded but understandable bit of a cover-up this week because the reality of Alaska can be just a little too real, more […]
