Can an ever smaller Iditarod survive? Fifteen years ago, I wrote a book titled “Graveyard of Dreams: Dashed Hopes and Shattered Aspirations Along Alaska’s Iditarod Trail” that the Iditarod refused to sell […]
Shrinking or sinking?
Look out!
Fat-tired cyclists and runners coming off Alaska’s most famous trail have a one-word warning for mushers about to head north Sunday in the 1,000-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to Nome: Moose! […]
Goodbye Bud
Cancer claims one of biggest characters in first Iditarod race
Man beats dog
Girdwood musher Nicolas Petit on Tuesday led the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race into the tiny, Kuskokwim River community of McGrath more than two hours ahead of the pace set in […]
Iditarod loses another
One of the “Flying Anderson” brothers from the days when every Iditarod dog musher of note bore a nickname has reached the end of the trail. Allan “Eep” Anderson of McGrath […]
I-did-a-what?
News analysis The most telling observation about the problem today facing the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race comes midway through a December report from a consultant summarizing an anonymous survey earlier sent […]
Coming in 2017
Most journalists like to end the year looking back because, well, it’s easy: Cobble together some old stories; throw them online; and go drink. At craigmedred.news, however, we don’t like […]
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 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 […]
