GUEST COMMENTARY: The Arctic, melting ice and ancient issues

"What about the rest of the North?" asked McGeorge Bundy, president of the Ford Foundation, back in the 1970s while considering yet one more grant to help the troubled Native Americans of Alaska.

Beer will help power Alaska brewery

JUNEAU, Alaska | The Alaskan Brewing Co. is going green, but instead of looking to solar and wind energy, it has turned to a very familiar source: beer.

Don't blame Obama for 'donating Alaskan islands

Just more malarkey. In response to the letter about President Barack Obama “donating”Alaskan islands. Below is a document from the website I have listed. it outlines the facts about this topic.

Obama gave away potential oil reserves to Russia

President Barack Obama donates eight Alaskan islands to Russia for free. Thus, Russia can start drilling for oil. The islands have billions of barrels of oil.

CULINARY ADVENTURES – ALASKA, PART II

Some years ago, as part of a media tour, I visited Rungis, the enormous wholesale food market on the outskirts of Paris. I guess you could call Rungis "Le Halles on steroids." Our tour took place during the market's waning hours, around 5:30am. As we entered the seafood area, I could not bel…

CULINARY ADVENTURES – ALASKA, PART II

Some years ago, as part of a media tour, I visited Rungis, the enormous wholesale food market on the outskirts of Paris. I guess you could call Rungis "Les Halles on steroids." Our tour took place during the market's waning hours, around 5:30am. As we entered the seafood area, I could not be…

CULINARY ADVENTURES – ALASKA, PART I

I suppose many would call the idea of Alaskan cuisine an oxymoron, but they would be wrong. I know better, having recently cruised through the Inner Passage with stops in Juneau, Skagway, Glacier Bay and Ketchikan. Seafood? Of course, it's mostly about that, but for those of us who buy it in…

CULINARY ADVENTURES – ALASKA, PART I

I suppose many would call the idea of Alaskan cuisine an oxymoron, but they would be wrong. I know better, having recently cruised through the Inner Passage with stops in Juneau, Skagway, Glacier Bay and Ketchikan. Seafood? Of course, it's mostly about that, but for those of us who buy it in…

Three-time Iditarod musher, dog, visit students

Schults-Lewis Home Principal Vickie Terhune, right, pets Borage, an Alaskan Husky mix, during a Monday talk by Borage's owner Karen Land at the Schults-Lewis Home. Land spoke to students about her races in the Iditarod.

Three-time Iditarod musher, dog, visit students

Montana resident Karen Land speaks Monday about her experience racing the Iditarod to students at the Schults-Lewis Home in Morgan Township.

Three-time Iditarod musher, dog, visit students

Borage, an Alaskan Husky mix, lays on the floor while his owner Karen Land speaks Monday about her experiences in the Iditarod dogsled race. Land spoke and gave a slide presentation to the students at the Schults-Lewis Home in Morgan Township.

Three-time Iditarod musher, dog, visit students

Montana resident Karen Land points at a map of the Iditorad race in Alaska while speaking Monday about her experience running the dogsled race to students at the Schults-Lewis Home in Morgan Township.

Alaska Couple Builds Red Wagon for Grownups

Judy Foster and Fred Keller spent more than a year turning their old pick-up truck into an adult-size Radio Flyer wagon. The Alaska couple says their homemade convertible draws lots of stares out on the road, and some admirers. (Oct. 12)