Give Sarah Palin her due. No matter how you feel about Alaska’s former half-term governor or President-elect Donald Trump, there is no denying the former showed the latter the road to the […]
The pathfinder
Winning the peace
Commentary Someone will today win the war to be President of the United States. Some friends and acquaintances say that if the winner is Democrat Hilary Clinton, it will be a disaster […]
Internet dog war
Veteran Canadian film maker Fern Levitt still isn’t talking about her yet-to-be-seen but already controversial documentary “Sled Dogs,” but she’s got to be relishing the ever-growing attention the film is getting. Shot […]
Why, why, why?
Commentary Alaska Senate candidate Joe Millers’s “brown-shirted security detail (that) put a Jewish reporter in handcuffs at (a) public event” is gone now, but for a time last week it lived in […]
The new news
A new entity has slipped into the interwebs to challenge Alaska’s established news media for the attention of your eyeballs. Alaska Banner.com is an attractive website with a masthead featuring the big […]
New election mess?
Alaska’s strange election season of 2016 got even stranger on Friday with the website Must Read Alaska reporting a state Senate candidate might have vaulted onto the November ballot despite his failure […]
The broken marriage
Commentary At some point someone has to ask what went wrong with what was once a symbiotic relationship between Alaska and Big Oil. Was it the creation of the oil-fueled Permanent Fund […]
Bear steals lunch
Young Seward resident injured in encounter This much is known for certain about a Wednesday close encounter between 18-year-old Seward, Alaska resident Kyle Hubbard and a black bear: Hubbard has a broken […]
Pressing changes
Regime shift, building sale; same old alt-weekly BY MATT TUNSETH For craigmedred.news The new boss at the Anchorage Press says readers shouldn’t notice much difference on the pages of the paper despite the looming […]
New AK bear attacks
UPDATED NOV. 4 – Authorities in Soldotna are now admitting they’re skeptical of a report of a bear mauling near the confluence of the Kenai and Funny rivers earlier this week. A […]
