The winter of 2016-17 will be remembered as the year the Alaska warming trend took a pause before delivering one of those best-of-the-north springs. It was the year Mother Nature cooked […]
Best of cooling
News versus story
A news analysis In one compound sentence the Associated Press on Saturday summarized so much of what is wrong with journalism today. Here is what the AP reported: “Alaskans often take great […]
Something’s wrong here
Commentary Journalism today faces a nearly universal and very simple business problem that almost no one in the business talks about: quality control. To be perfectly honest, too, the problem often […]
The dog death news
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is long over and already near forgotten, and “Sled Dogs,” the controversial movie critical of the commercial use of sled dogs for racing and tours, has […]
Victim of the state
Once revered for world-leading skills at managing wild salmon, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game today finds itself under attack as incompetent as the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council begins court-ordered […]
Milo bombs Alaska
News commentary Lost your job? Tired of the hate from all the haters you’ve inspired? What ya gonna do? Road trip!
Bring in the feds
In the 49th state of the United States, home to legions of politicians who have complained for decades about what they call “federal over-reach,” Gov. Bill Walker has been slowly but steadily […]
The thin line
A product of Anchorage, AK from his youth, Danny Maroney lived the big wild, life until it killed him at an age when he was settling into those senior years when a […]
Last of her pack
Updated with video at 4 p.m. April 6, 2017, and audio at 4 p.m. April 7, 2017 The surprise last-survivor of a wolf pack the Alaska Department of Fish and Game once […]
Identity politics
UPDATE: This story was edited on Apri 7, 2017 to reflect exact voter turnout numbers in South Anchorage Iraq war veteran Albert Fogle’s foray into Alaska politics ended in narrow defeat, but […]
