Across the big empty to the north of the Alaska Range, 33-year-old Tyson Flaharty, the apparent heir to a rich legacy of powerhouse Fairbanks cyclists, was burning up the Iditarod Trail […]
Idit-a-speed
No hopes, Snopes
So this is what the state of news has come to: Snopes – the formerly Facebook-associated website that was supposed to help fact check the media, one of a variety of […]
Down and out
Most of the remaining mushers in the 1,000-mile Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race were on the trail north from the historic mining town of Dawson, Yukon Territory, Canada on Friday with […]
Fracturing media
The McClatchy Company – the California-based newspaper chain fondly remembered by some in Alaska as the owners of the Anchorage Daily News for 35 years before the Alice Rogoff-Alaska Dispatch News debacle […]
The last colony
News Analysis The United Fishermen of Alaska (UFA) has issued its annual report on who got the fish of the 49th state, and the winner is? Outside fishing interests. Of the 6.4 […]
Goodbye news
The laws of nature increasingly point to the conclusion that journalism as most in this country have known it for decades is doomed. Anyone who stands back and looks at the environment […]
BIG stories
The biggest story of the week in Alaska? Well, you’ve already seen the headline and the photo above so you know, although the moose in the picture topping the story posted by […]
A thank you
On this most joyous holiday of the season in these still United States struggling with partisan differences that color too much, it is time to give thanks. So thanks to all who […]
A troubled trail
After more than a year of turmoil for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, the long-time executive director is out. In a carefully worded, six-paragraph statement on Thursday, Mike Mills, the president […]
Record kill
Snow was falling on Anchorage on Monday, and the last couple black bears still roaming the urban edge of the nearly 2,000-square-mile municipality were thought be headed at last to dens where […]
