It's like the winter of 2011-12 hates Anchorage. If it isn't snowing a foot, the winds are blowing 100 mph and everyone is hanging on, hoping they survive.
Allegations of an illegal hunt involving four Wasilla men seems reminiscent of the big game scandal involving former Gov. Sarah Palin's former brother-in-law, trooper Mike Wooten.
If you're going to lift and throw, you want a shovel with a T-shaped handle and a big, lightweight scoop. The old-fashioned aluminum grain shovel may be best.
Winds gusting at 100 mph, sideways blowing snow and long, dark nights -- Lonnie Dupre could very well have been on Flattop Mountain in Anchorage as Mount McKinley.
OPINION: Forget waiting for the markets to determine how multinational oil companies with no responsibilities to Alaska can commercialize its stranded natural gas reserves.
ANALYSIS: Chiefs of Alaska's big three oil companies don't much like each other; nonetheless, they staged an "unprecedented" meeting Thursday. Did anything change as regards Alaska's natural gas pipe dream?
Just when you thought there couldn't possibly be another Alaska-based reality show on television, guess what? There's another Alaska-based reality show premiering Thursday night.
"Dropped: Project Alaska," a new reality show, is insulting to people who survived on caribou in this country before the fishing rod was invented, before there were matches with which to light a fire.
As a one-time newspaper reporter, Craig Medred has covered everything from the luxury cruiseship Prinsendam in the Gulf of Alaska to the disappearance of Japanese national hero Naomi Uemera on the slopes of Mt. McKinley to the bogus "rescue" of a pair of young, foolish whales trapped by ice near Point Barrow. Along the way, it has been his luck to sail a small boat across the Gulf, climb on the glaciers of North America's tallest peak, and spend a lot of time shivering in the cold dark. He prefers any of those things to reporting on the manueverings in Alaska's halls of power where the 49th state's resources are often divvied up between the powerful and the near powerless. In Alaska, however, he has discovered that politics is something that cannot be avoided, even by those who live in cabins in the woods, and thus he has often found himself embroiled in stories of a political nature. In journalism as in life, he often approaches things with a directness prone to win him a few friends and plenty of enemies.
