How badly did the Secret Service foul things up when intruder Omar Gonzalez managed to get inside the White House through an unlocked front door?… Continue reading
Calls for a greater law enforcement presence in an area are not new. In fact, the sentiment has been expressed not just in Nikiski, but… Continue reading
Anti-climate-change marchers took to the streets of Manhattan, N.Y., in the hundreds of thousands over the weekend to demand international action to fight global warming.The… Continue reading
Steve Strait’s lawsuit against the state of Alaska’s approval of the Walker-Mallott no-party gubernatorial ticket will backfire on the Alaska Republican Party.Strait and Frank McQueary,… Continue reading
Gov. Sean Parnell announced Monday that the state has filed a claim against Xerox for its mishandling of Medicaid billing in the past year. The… Continue reading
It’s become quite the thing for celebrities, or even semi-celeb journalists, to let us in on the dark secrets of their lives. Whether it’s coming… Continue reading
The economy has been on the road to recovery since mid-2009, when the Great Recession officially ended. But, for most Americans, recovery is not there… Continue reading
In the fairy tale “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,” Ali Baba, a poor woodcutter, is in the forest when he hears a group of… Continue reading
For hundreds of Interior commuters in West Fairbanks on Tuesday morning, the standoff between police officers and an armed man threatening to kill himself and… Continue reading
The governor race in Alaska has taken an interesting turn with Independent Republican Bill Walker jumping out of his party and platform to team with… Continue reading
During the past few weeks, two sets of initials have dominated the news — ISIL and NFL — and the casual listener would be hard-pressed… Continue reading
Alaska isn’t divided between red and blue, Republican and Democrat; it’s divided between Xtratufs and bunny boots.The boundary between the two starts at the Canadian… Continue reading
After some hand-wringing over British citizens who have chosen to fight with ISIS, Prime Minister David Cameron said he thinks one reason for the defection… Continue reading
We haven’t had a really juicy sex scandal in Washington for a while. You know the kind: Camera crews chase someone powerful (and maybe his… Continue reading
Last week, a group of people from Russia came to visit the Kenai Peninsula. They were here not to discuss the geopolitical situation, but something… Continue reading
We have as close to a national consensus as possible in the war against ISIS.Polls show the public wants strong measures. Practically everyone on the… Continue reading
As part of a court case in 1964, U.S. Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart was asked to determine whether a film was pornographic or not.… Continue reading
I’ve always had this Pollyannaish theory that a highly publicized rash of bad behavior can create such a groundswell of disgust that we are compelled… Continue reading
This is the way the federal government should work.Alaska has a surplus of pink salmon from the 2013 record harvest. The feds need food to… Continue reading
It was a little, incongruous shall we say, for the country’s two-term vice president, Joe Biden, to say, as he did at a rally this… Continue reading
