The fading significance of Alaska’s legacy media is broken down by the numbers in the September issue of the state Department of Labor’s Alaska Economic Trends, and the picture isn’t pretty. An […]
Old media twilight?
Who is dying?
Medical researchers have been telling Americans for a long, long time that the sedentary lifestyle and poor eating habits lead down the road to premature death, and now the SARS-CoV-2 virus is […]
That time
The chilliest winter in some years has come to an end in Alaska’s largest city with April looking to be the first month since December to end with the monthly average temperature […]
Down and out
UPDATE: This story has been edited from an earlier version to include data from the 2018 Annual Traffic Report from the Municipality of Anchorage, details on the extent of Hannah Halversen’s injuries […]
Don’t do it!
What Not To Do Wednesday (#WNTDW) – the Facebook fable of the week from the Anchorage Police Department (APD) – today became its own #WNTDW. Shortly after the day’s #WNTDW popped up […]
The run down
The Anchorage Police Department is refusing to release any information on a local resident reportedly run down and injured while trying to stop a thief from stealing a front-end loader. Why is […]
The upside
Almost a week before a 7.0 earthquake shook Alaska’s urban core to the tune of tens of millions of dollars in damage, lit up social media, and caught the attention of the […]
“I believe”
Once upon a time in America, the information business was more like science than religion. No matter whether writers were in public relations or journalism, accuracy was judged on evidence not mere […]
Bear hunt resumes
Almost three weeks have passed since a grizzly bear killed a hiker in the Anchorage suburb of Eagle River, and officials of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game still aren’t saying […]
Danger by oversight
“Copper” the red squirrel has been given a probable death sentence, though his friends at the Anchorage Police Department don’t seem to get it, and the media, as the lyrics of Bob Dylan […]
