Goodby Daryl A U.S. Marine who emerged from the jungles of Vietnam to become a legend for saving lives as a National Park Service ranger on Mount McKilney has seen his last […]
A Big, Big Life
Must Read
A little chaos in the news The conservative news website Must Read Alaska – long a pain in the side of the mainstream media’s Anchorage Daily News (ADN) – unveiled a […]
Liar, liar
And the questions unasked Long, long ago, an already old Alaska adventurer by the name of Dick Griffith met up with a group of Alaska Mountain Wilderness Classic racers standing on […]
Passions
The strange things we love With every passing year, the tidal marshes at the head of Turnagain Arm remind me more of how physically brutal that which I love to do so […]
Journalism’s failure
The knowledge gap Many in these unUnited States today believe the big problem with American journalism is political bias, and that is a problem. But the even bigger problem is laziness, ignorance […]
Dog saved
Iditarod PR badly, badly botched The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, an event that claims to be “all about the dogs,” this week disqualified a musher who was all about the dogs, […]
Thoughts of Alice
Clean or filthy rich? News that Joe Sanberg – he of the slogan proclaiming “Clean Rich is the New Filthy Rich” – is now caught up in a scandal swirling around “green investor” […]
Newsonomics
Struggling ADN now faces an employee revolt Older Alaskans will remember the days when you could drop a quarter or two in one of the news boxes scattered around Alaska’s largest city […]
Best worst times
Or worst best times? No matter what a train wreck legacy media have become in these times, the early 21st century has to be summed as the best of times and the […]
Trust us
Alaska’s largest news organization downsizes After three months of denying plans to reduce the local newspaper to a two-day per week publication, the Anchorage Daily News officially announced the change today in […]
