Former Alaska Dispatch News owner Alice Rogoff – a financial adviser to Alaska Gov. Bill Walker, the hostess for dinner with President Barack Obama on his historic 49th state visit, and the estranged […]
Biggest loser
Old fogies
News analysis Alaska appears to be weathering its current recession much better than the big crash of the 1980s, according to the latest figures from the state Department of Labor, but […]
Halfback
Update: The word is now official. The Alaska Dispatch News is history. The Anchorage Daily News is back. The first of the new Anchorage Daily News newspapers are begin landing on city […]
Penile art
If you’re reading this and you don’t know a woman who has been sexually harassed, you clearly do not know many women. And now, a one-time aide to the Alaska legislature who […]
Deadly temptation
South of the Alaska Range mountains and west along a wide band of the 49th-state coast to Bristol Bay and then north to the Arctic, the danger season has begun. By the […]
The plot thickens
A month on from the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race’s first, publicly reported case of doping, four-time champ Dallas Seavey has hired a self-proclaimed San Fransisco “fixer” to clear him […]
Listen up
Commentary You may not trust the media – this or any other – and you shouldn’t. Journalism is not an exact science. Journalism is a regularly error-filled compilation of some of the […]
The future
On the frozen tundra on the western shore of Kuskokwim Bay in the sparely inhabited country more than 450 miles west of Alaska’s throbbing urban core, the energy future of the planet […]
Horrible gift
Alaska journo-lebrity Alice Rogoff celebrates her birthday Friday, and the good news is the estranged wife of billionaire David Rubenstein will be fully vested in Social Security at age 66. The bad […]
Little red salmon
The wolves of Southwest Alaska share something in common with the wolves of Denali, according to a new National Park Service-sponsored study, they love fish – salmon to be specific. Following on […]
