Alaska

Guest City Notebook: Jack’s Lot

October 05, 2015

Three summers ago, his 12-year-old son was struck by a car while riding his bike along Patterson Street. Vinson still keeps a laminated copy of the Anchorage Daily News report about the crash: It barely made 100 words, but it changed their lives forever.

See Alaska: Bear TV in Juneau

September 06, 2015

We had a front row seat to watch two bears making trouble in the Starr Hill neighborhood in Juneau. (With video!)

For Talking Points Memo: What the Lower 48 doesn’t get about Denali

September 02, 2015

In Alaska, nobody really cares if you went to Harvard, but if your grandmother was buried here, you should say so because it gives you cred. I think this is because there are only 700,000 people in this state and a whole lot of dangerous country, animals and weather. People from very different backgrounds tend to find themselves relying on each other, so we care most about stuff like whether you are the type to carry a tow strap in your truck and would be willing to pull us out of a ditch in a snowstorm. Politics come way second. Our loyalty to Denali over McKinley is driven by the same impulse.