Pt Capital cofounder prison bound One of the founders of the Alaska investment firm Pt Capital – Californian Joseph Neal Sanberg, “Joe” to his friends – has agreed to plead guilty to […]
The AK connection
When you’re a U.S. company doing business with blacklisted Chinese telecom giant Huawei, it might be best to do so indirectly from an outpost in far off Alaska. The U.S. Commerce Department […]
Poor rich woman?
The draft of a once-proposed loan agreement between an Alaska Native corporation and Alice Rogoff has shed new light on the 2017 implosion of the 49th state’s largest newspaper. Despite […]
The fallacy
Commentary The Alaska Dispatch News, the 49th state’s largest newspaper and most-visited online news site, is teetering on the edge of financial collapse, and some on the right in one of the […]
Newspaper gone?
On the Friday that The McClatchy Company, one of the country’s biggest news operations, reported a staggering $37.4 million loss for the quarter, The Midnight Sun, an Anchorage blog, publicly revealed […]
Here we go again
The Alaska politician famous for presumptively winning and then unbelievably losing a U.S. Senate seat in 2010 is back in the race against an old foe. Say hello to former Republican Joe […]
Let’s make a deal
Former Alaska Attorney General Craig Richards, now an aide-on-everything to Gov. Bill Walker, Friday made a pitch to the Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. to invest in the state’s economic future in the […]
Totally flummoxed
News commentary Journalism has a lot in common with intelligence gathering. Journalists take bits and pieces of information of which they never have enough and try to construct from that a narrative […]
