A death quickly dismissed Forty-eight-year-old Matt Glover from North Pole, Alaska, was, according to his many Fairbanks-area friends, among the safest and most responsible cyclists in the 49th state. A wildland […]
The ‘accident’
A new twist
Almost a week after Alaska Rep. Ivy Spohnholz, D-Anchorage, accused a retired Anchorage Superior Court judge of sexual harassment in a successful effort to sink his appointment to the state Board of […]
Perfect symbol
Sometimes in the context of human inspiration the little things matter. So let’s hear it for state Rep. Scott Kawaski, D-Fairbanks, who has introduced a bill to change the state bird […]
Faux subsistence?
A Cook Inlet commercial fisherman thinks the Kenai River personal-use (PU), dipnet fishery is starting to look too much like a subsistence fishery, so he has petitioned the state Board of Fisheries […]
Fighting the tide
News analysis After three years of work, a University of Alaska Fairbanks study of the state’s commercial fishing industry has reached one conclusion nobody in the 49th state wants to talk about […]
Penile art
If you’re reading this and you don’t know a woman who has been sexually harassed, you clearly do not know many women. And now, a one-time aide to the Alaska legislature who […]
Slap talks
Alaska Sen. David Wilson says he has met with the reporter he allegedly slapped earlier this week, and they have patched things up. After the Thursday meeting in his Juneau office, Wilson […]
Capital bubbles
Commentary The gridlocked Alaska Legislature has a problem, but it’s not what most Alaskans think, although then again in a way it is sort of what most Alaskans think. The Legislature’s problem […]
