With Alice Rogoff’s dream of an Alaska media empire dead and a federal Bankruptcy Court trustee sniffing her back trail to find the hole down which tens of millions of dollars disappeared […]
Queen of the Arctic
Devolution
Commentary On the day the Women’s March hit Alaska, a 49th-state journalist popped a photo of demonstrators up on Instagram with this description: “We hate Donald Trump up North too.” In the […]
Paper pipeline
A decision by the U.S. government to block the $1.2 billion Chinese purchase of MoneyGram might have concerned those hoping for a far bigger pile of Bejing cash to finance construction of […]
Our war
Commentary We have met the enemy, and he is Donald Trump for he is us. Or too many of us. Is there a better time than Christmas to reflect on the vicious […]
Future media
News analysis On the morning after Track Palin beat up his father, confronted Wasilla Police and eventually went to jail, his mom – former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin – was up early […]
Palin arrested
The family of Alaska pol-ebrity Sarah Palin is back in the news and not in a good way. Alaska Court records reveal the Saturday arrest of Palin’s 28-year-old son on charges of […]
Deadly temptation
South of the Alaska Range mountains and west along a wide band of the 49th-state coast to Bristol Bay and then north to the Arctic, the danger season has begun. By the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Journalism’s problem
Commentary Once the artists of their day painted on the walls of caves, and art was worth nothing. This is the problem journalism faces in the Age of the Internet. Most journalism […]
