No one has as yet declared the state of Alaska officially on the list of governments fighting recessions, and it is unlikely anyone will. But a top state economist Tuesday admitted the […]
The recession arrives
Cabela’s sold
A long-rumored takeover of outdoor retailer Cabela’s by Bass Pro was announced Monday. It could send ripples across the outdoor equipment retail market in Anchorage. Anchorage is just one of several cities […]
AK Bear attack #5
UPDATED A grizzly bear mauling of a deer hunter in Southeast Alaska has brought to five the number of attacks reported in the northwest corner of the Alexander Archipelago since Aug. 7. […]
Harassed out of AK?
A “sex-crimes expert” from the state of New York has filed a lawsuit in Alaska Superior Court claiming she was fired from her job as a 49th state prosecutor because she complained […]
The untouched lunch
Alaska natural gas pipeline czar Keith Meyer on Thursday joined a luncheon panel hosted by Commonwealth North to talk gas. He never touched his food. Maybe it was due to all […]
She’s baaccckkkk….
Two years after Anchorage TV reporter Charlo Greene became temporarily famous for saying, “F— it; I quit” live, on-air before walking out of a KTVA newscast, The Guardian is reiterating that it […]
AK bear-attack cluster
With four bear attacks in two months in an area about the size of Phoenix, Southeast Alaska has what can only be called a “bear-attack cluster.” Most of America is more […]
PFD’s biggest losers
Alaskans might be cursing the $1,000 and change they lost when Gov. Bill Walker, possibly illegally, decided to veto more than $666 million headed for the Permanent Fund Dividend account this year. […]
Grow Alaska how?
THIS STORY WAS UPDATED ON SEPT. 28, 2016 While Alaska Gov. Bill Walker was in Asia chasing a natural gas pipeline dream last week, Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott journeyed to the small […]
PFD mad, madder, maddest
Alaskans were Pretty, Friggin’, Darn angry on Friday, my friends. “Like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli,” as George Costanza once observed. It was an emotion that […]
