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 […]
AK New-media’s new beat
Good-bye Mount McKinley
ON THE IDITAROD TRAIL — Dropping down out of the Shell Hills into the snow-covered Skwentna swamps with the countryside awash in the last light of evening, Mount McKinley squatted in massive […]
Free snow for some
Somebody got snowed. That free and now famous Alaska Railroad snow shipped from Fairbanks to Anchorage for the start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race only to go unused? There’s a […]
Prudhoe Bay scaling back
The news just keeps getting worse for the ailing Alaska economy with BP officially announcing on Monday a plan to idle three oil productions rigs on the North Slope. The cut […]
Journalism has to get better
The media have a credibility problem, and the reason is simple: There are too many people writing on topics about which they know absolutely nothing. They might as well just be making […]
Lucky to be alive
ALASKA RANGE — The ice bridge across the narrows of the Tatina River looked sketchy from the moment the Iditarod Trail was put in across it this year with the course […]
Iditarod’s $ Dilemma
Alaska author, former newspaperman and Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race fan Tim Jones has a pitch for you, but the odds are you’re not buying. “How much does a ticket to […]
Near death on Iditarod Trail
An Iditarod hiker is lucky to be alive after an ice bridge across the Tatitna River collapsed Friday dumping him into frigid, fast-moving waters over his head, according to reports emerging from […]
Not a Farewell Burn
Failed Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, the tax-’em-till-they-bleed former Alaska governor who somehow morphed into a conservative lightening rod, has had one thing right for a long time now: “lamestream media.” Sad […]
Idit-a-mistake
Sometimes it is hard to avoid wondering if the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is trying to kill the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Last year the event, which likes to […]
