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 […]
The Trail Blazer
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 […]
Play nice, children!
“I disapprove of what you say, and I have a backend algorithm that will fix that!” Voltaire/2016 OK, so Voltaire actually said something ever-so-slightly different, but he might have put it this […]
Moose hunter’s victory
Alaska moose hunter John Sturgeon won a major victory over the National Park Service Tuesday in a lawsuit that could have implications far beyond his use of a hovercraft in the Yukon-Charley […]
Near record Iditarod
Strange how it is that paradigm shifts redefine the possible. Up until a couple years ago, it was thought that if someone covered the 1,000 miles from Knik to Nome along the […]
AK New-media’s new beat
The title card from the TV show Peyton Place While most Alaskans have had their attention focused on the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, the state’s Superbowl, the new-media of state […]
