I live in a state overloaded with guns, and I fear death. But it is not the guns that scare me. It is motor vehicles. Today it was a woman with a […]
Killers on the road
Guns kill
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control have released their annual death report, and with that, firearms are again in the news in Alaska. “Alaska ranks number one in gun death rates,” KTUU.com, […]
BIG stories
The biggest story of the week in Alaska? Well, you’ve already seen the headline and the photo above so you know, although the moose in the picture topping the story posted by […]
Word control
What a week in Alaska journalism, and it’s only Thursday. First we get the KTVA cowboys staking out an aggressive mama moose on the Glenn Highway bike path for more than an […]
Pressicide
The greatest threat to democracy in the United States today isn’t delusive Donald Trump, the sitting president of the United States who either can’t tell fact from fiction or doesn’t care. The […]
Ban scary
Commentary The United States is a country where appearance matters – matters a lot; a country where fears sometimes run wild; and a country today caught up in a pre-occupation with self. […]
Old wounds
By Jill Burke for craigmedred.news Far from the metropolitan areas that today dominate the American consciousness, remote in relation to the contiguous United States, the community of Bethel, AK population 6,300 – […]
No-gun REI
Alaska’s biggest outdoor co-op pushes for gun control
Armed America
Most Alaskans live in neighborhoods full of guns. Should they be afraid?
We’re No. 2!
The Alaska economy might have started a slide into recession in 2016, but the residents of 49th state managed to maintain a joyful outlook on life, according to a newly […]
