The cost of convenience The Anchorage Police Department has finally identified the hit-and-run driver behind the wheel of a Jeep Cherokee that killed 63-year-old Arthur Stepetin Jr. on Aug. 29. After weeks […]
Double tragedy
Not ours
But cheer up, Alaska not worst The good old days of a 49th state rich in oil revenues that boosted all kinds of community projects might be over, and the culture war […]
Crime & nonpunishment
What value in a human life? The Alaska justice system has finally made Martin J. Richards pay for killing 65-year-old Redzebije Imeri. The cost? $200. Alaska State Court records reflect that […]
Coop bears
The problem with tasty chickens With a chicken-fancying grizzly bear sow and her cubs still roaming upscale Hillside neighborhoods above Alaska’s largest city, there is an increasing social-media call for the Alaska […]
Saving lives
Easy solution for safer streets If the stories told by the many motorists who claim to have been traumatized by near misses with homeless pedestrians on Anchorage streets are true, maybe […]
Another death
Another pedestrian hit in a crosswalk The Anchorage Police Department has finally confirmed a pedestrian death in South Anchorage reported on social media two days ago. A friend of the dead woman […]
Rundown
Two weeks ago, 61-year-old Fairbanks cyclist Janice Onorato was rammed by a car while riding along the Steese Highway north of the Central Alaska city. Why Alaska State Troopers, who responded […]
The pushers
Leave it to the American College of Cardiology to out American physicians for what so many of them have become: drug pushers. The College this week declared that “NuSH therapies” – short […]
Goodbye Mike
One of Anchorage’s most unforgettable characters died in Portland on Wednesday when he was struck by a Max Light Rail train. Eighty-one-year-old Michael O’Callaghan was one of those rare do-gooders who walked […]
Big Wild Life
Anchorage’s growing problem Ya got trouble, my friends, right here in Anchor Town. And that starts with a “T” and that rhymes with “B” and that stands for birds! Chickens, namely. […]
