Messaging matters, and a year into the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic the only reasonable conclusion that can be drawn about the health messaging in this country is that it sucked. The U.S. per capita […]
‘It’s the , stupid’
Anxiety rising
All across the country now, the reports of pandemic anxiety are growing. It was only a matter of time. Even before COVID-19 invaded everyone’s life, anxiety disorders were rampant in the […]
Missing madman
More than a year has passed since anyone has reported a sighting of Jerald Harrison, AKA “Slop Pail Jerry,” the Madman of the Yukon River. He was last seen near the […]
State of misogyn
The first and to date only woman to win the 1,000-mile, Yukon-Quest International Sled Dog Race, arguably Alaska’s toughest ultramarathon, and a three-time runner-up in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, Aliy […]
A tale of two mushers
UPDATED April 30, 2016 Brennan Norden is the outlawed Iditarod musher nobody knows. Four years before Alaskans started worrying about the treatment of Travis Beals, who the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race […]
Iditarod bans Travis Beals
A week after it was first reported the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race had allowed musher Travis Beals to compete while awaiting trail on domestic-violence charges, Alaska’s signature sporting event took a […]
Second-rate journalism
These are embarrassing days to be an Alaska journalist. On Tuesday, the Washington Post matter of factly reported that “in mid-October police questioned (Johnny) Manziel after witnesses saw the (Cleveland Browns) quarterback […]
Iditarod musher facing domestic violence charges
© 2016 craigmedred.news All Rights Reserved A little over a month ago, 24-year-old Travis Beals from Seward happily rode into Nome behind a team of six dogs to claim his second top-20 […]
Iditarod musher faces domestic violence charges
© 2016 craigmedred.news All Rights Reserved A little over a month ago, 24-year-old Travis Beals from Seward happily rode into Nome behind a team of six dogs to claim his second top-20 […]
Dirty little secrets
As you read this, the odds are good a woman is being beaten by her husband, fiance, boyfriend, partner or the like somewhere in the 49th state. A 2010 study by the […]
