The woman who filled the roll of “fisheries reporter” for Alaska’s largest newspaper for years has retired with an admission of what was obvious to fishery-educated readers a long-time ago: She was […]
The propagandist
Hunting trust
This just in: A new study has concluded most of the people reading this don’t think about news the way journalists think about news. Surprise, surprise. But first the good news: The study […]
Bad vibes
On the day Glenn Greenwald, once a darling of the U.S. media but increasingly an outcast, ripped into a predominately blue media’s coverage of the red half of America, Alaska’s largest newspaper […]
Speed kills
With Alaska’s largest newspaper about to publish a scandalous story accusing 52-year-old Andy Teuber of sexual harassment at the start of March, the former president of the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium […]
Iditarod, take two
If Alaska’s largest newspaper is to be believed, you can now add the so-called “Last Great Race” to the filmed events of which you must ask “is it real or is it […]
Maj. Major
The Anchorage Police Department’s sometimes apparently fictitious Facebook feature – What Not To Do Wednesday (WNTDW) – has been shut down apparently due to the efforts of a woman who works for […]
Clickbaiting
Alaska’s largest newspaper is once again pushing – knowingly or unknowingly – the economic nonsense pitched by a mouthpiece for the state’s commercial fishing industry. “One Alaska king salmon is worth the […]
Trail’s end
A soft-spoken, rail-thin Anchorage musician and author once Alaska famous as one of the hardest of hard men on the Iditarod Trail is dead at the age of 66. Shawn Lyons for […]
The optimist
As of today – with Dr. Al Gross trailing incumbent Alaska Republic Sen. Dan Sullivan by 61,000 votes to 119,000 votes – the independent candidate needs to win about three out of […]
Hormonal dangers
UPDATE: Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz has resigned. He issued a statement citing “unacceptable personal conduct” as the reason. The nature of that conduct remains undefined. While Duane Ose, the 78-year-old […]
