Commentary When did Alaska get so damn old? The median age in Anchorage in 1970 was 23.2. It is now 32.2, but sometimes feels like 82.2. As the rest of the […]
State of Stagnation
Facebook state
In a sign of the times, former Alaska gubernatorial candidate Mike Dunleavy took to Facebook “Live” on Thursday to reveal he is once again in the Republican primary race for the office […]
Biggest loser
Former Alaska Dispatch News owner Alice Rogoff – a financial adviser to Alaska Gov. Bill Walker, the hostess for dinner with President Barack Obama on his historic 49th state visit, and the estranged […]
AK-China Gas Inc.?
Tongues were wagging all over Alaska Tuesday thanks to four words in a Monday update of a Bloomberg News story about President Donald Trump’s planned trade mission to China. The four words? […]
Pipe dream
Only a day after the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation blasted bad Alaska press as the problem threatening construction of the 49th state’s longest-lived pipe dream, a high-profile analyst of global markets dumped […]
Pebble rising?
Conservative talk-show host Rick Rydell reported in line for EPA’s top job in Alaska
The feds arrive
Both economically and biologically, the commercial fisheries of Alaska’s Cook Inlet are imprecise and archaic. And now come federal regulators to try to apply Information Age precision to this chaos of […]
Old News new?
Fresh out of bankruptcy, the Alaska Dispatch News appears to be getting ready to distance itself from former and failed publisher Alice Rogoff at the same time she is making a bid […]
Road to court
What the opponents of a controversial state road settlement thought they couldn’t accomplish, Ahtna Inc. has done. The regional Alaska Native corporation for East Central Alaska has decided it wants to go […]
Call the Navy
Referencing the Aleutian War campaign of the 1940s, Alaska Gov. Bill Walker is trying to leverage a new U.S. Navy base in the 49th state out of the crisis in North Korea. […]
