In December 2016, Michael Flynn was three weeks from becoming the national-security adviser to the next president of the United States. This is a pertinent… Continue reading
President Trump’s son-in-law and designated Middle East peace envoy, Jared Kushner, told the Brookings Institution’s Saban Forum last weekend that a peace agreement between Israel… Continue reading
Here’s how to become a principal in Washington: be unprincipled. In order to stand any chance of advancing to leadership, one must lead from behind,… Continue reading
What do commercial cannabis establishments and gravel pits have in common? In the Kenai Peninsula Borough, both are enterprises over which borough government has limited… Continue reading
In his Alabama appearance for Roy Moore, Steve Bannon turned in an intellectually and morally putrid performance even by his standards. There is a partisan… Continue reading
Ketchikan has a drug problem. Largely, it’s methamphetamine. In the past two months, the Ketchikan Police Department and the Alaska State Troopers confiscated several hundred… Continue reading
We are now fully immersed in the holiday season here on the central Kenai Peninsula. Christmas has come to Kenai and visited Soldotna Creek Park,… Continue reading
This is my personal story and a #Me Too as well. I was 10 years old. He was a middle-aged family friend. The year was… Continue reading
Among the more troubling aspects of President Donald Trump’s justification for shrinking two national monuments in Utah is his suggestion that federally managed public lands… Continue reading
Open a bank account using a stolen identity and you might find yourself behind bars. Open millions of accounts using stolen identities, and you might… Continue reading
My wife spends a lot of time rolling her eyes. She knows, for instance, that when we meet at the end of the day and… Continue reading
A new FBI report on hate crimes tells a sobering story. For the second year in a row, police departments across the country reported a… Continue reading
A new FBI report on hate crimes tells a sobering story. For the second year in a row, police departments across the country reported a… Continue reading
One way to kill a predatory animal is to deny it sustenance. The tax-cut bill passed by the Senate, if it clears a conference with… Continue reading
Alaska now has the necessary alignment for the Alaska gasline LNG project. Mid-June 1970: one of the most important days in my life. It rained,… Continue reading
The president of the United States wakes up some mornings seemingly determined to convince as many people as possible that he’s unsuited to high office.… Continue reading
It’s like your standard con: The flimflammer counts on the flimflammee to be ripe for the swindle, to be a larcenous cheat him- or herself.… Continue reading
Rarely has the idiom “virtue is its own reward” looked better than it does in light of the sex scandals sweeping the nation. The so-called… Continue reading
Between Thanksgiving and the New Year, it is easy to get caught up in the holiday rush, feel the pull of corporate shopping events like… Continue reading
Winter in Fairbanks is deceptively pristine in its winter white blanket of snow. With the hard winter comes increased fuel consumption and occasional inversions that… Continue reading
