FAIRBANKS — A thousand miles after his adventure began, the outlaw cyclist Jeff Oatley pedaled out of the vast, white, nothingness of the upper Yukon River valley into Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada […]
Out of the land time forgot
Everybody dies; that’s a fact
A lot of people are going to die today. But don’t panic; you’re not about to read a new Unabomber manifesto or the twisted ramblings of someone about to go on a […]
No, yes; here we go again
Forty years ago, I surely wasn’t the only student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks with a shotgun in his dorm room. Was it legal? Who knows? Who asked?
What did the governor buy?
Two months before it was first publicly revealed that Washington, D.C. lobbyist Jack Ferguson, a former aide to Sen. Ted Stevens and Rep. Don Young, had been hired by Gov. Bill Walker to […]
The new and truly “Iceland”
Raindrops were sprinkling Alaska’s largest city again Thursday, and suddenly the year-old climate-change speculation about Anchorage transforming into “a less sunny version of Seattle” wasn’t so funny.
If you’re going to Canada: Do not ride your bike
The United States and Canada once shared one of the friendliest borders in the world. No more, it would seem.
Free tickets south!
Anyone who thinks Alaska’s current population of almost 800,000 people too big should be all down with Gov. Bill Walker’s plan to reintroduce the income tax, according to Forbes magazine.
Alaska’s biggest problem
Trust is a precious commodity. Once lost, it is difficult, often impossible, to regain. Friendships, marriages and business partnerships die when trust disappears. Many among the 40 to 50 percent of Americans […]
Attacked by a bear? It may be your fault
Wild animals still rarely prey on humans, but assaults by big-toothed, long-clawed critters are on the upswing in the developed world and if you are attacked odds are near 50-50 that you […]
Rural lives matter too
The time has come to talk about the double-standard for wilderness search-and-rescue (SAR) that has existed in the state of Alaska for far too long.
