As the story came to be told and grew, there was a lone hero because stories are best that way. Reality is more complex and sometimes confused by the fog of war. […]
Fog of Iditarod
Shady business?
For the first time, a federal judge has used the f-word – fraud – in connection with the maneuverings of Alice Rogoff, the former owner-publisher of the bankrupt Alaska Dispatch News […]
Managing Alaska
The wolf-kill-loving Alaska Outdoor Council and the wolf-kill-hating National Parks and Conservation Association would appear to have found common ground in trying to stop a last-minute Congressional amendment to the Alaska National […]
Idit-a-fable
Commentary This story has been updated The Washington Post used to a be a newspaper you could respect, or at least I could. My journalism career began in the Watergate era when […]
Tasty salmon, Florida fresh
More potentially bad news for the Alaska commercial salmon fishing industry was Monday emanating from, of all places, South Florida. On the site of an old tomato farm near a community called […]
Techno-cold risks
Two feet and a hand gone to frostbite, 61-year-old Italian Roberto Zanda can only wish he had been endurance racing in the safety of Alaska’s Iditarod warmth this year instead of […]
Two saved
This story has been updated When a trio of Iditarod Trail fat-tire cyclists fighting their way through a Seward Peninsula ground blizzard in the dark of the early moring Friday stumbled upon […]
News fraud
The publisher and owner of Arctic Today – which bills itself as the unrivaled source for “international news and perspective on a changing Arctic” – has been accused of fraud in a […]
Iditarod dog dies
This story has been updated Kotzebue musher Katherine Keith pulled into Nome Thursday night to bring to a close a musher’s year from hell. First there was a dead dog near […]
Tell me a lie
Commentary The time has come to accept that many people want fake news even if they don’t admit it. The time has to come recognize many people need fake news even if they don’t […]
