The media breathlessly reported that AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka was to venture into the den of the Mama Grizzly to lambaste former half-term Gov. Sarah Palin. Did Trumka actually do this? Who the hell knows.
Your life is in your hands, and experience is good ... perhaps too good beyond a certain point.
It was inevitable that writer Jon Krakauer, filmmaker Sean Penn and their "Into the Wild" fantasy would get someone killed.
When a bear kills or mauls, there's always a search for explanation, some likely, some unlikely, and the fatal attack near Yellowstone National Park recently is no exception.
If you believe the national media, Alaska bush pilots are flamboyant cowboys of the sky, Prince William Sound is still covered in crude from the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and it's a bad idea to keep Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport named after a guy who died in a plane crash.
Three facts that should be more important to the media in general -- and Time magazine in particular -- than whether or not Sarah Palin rolled her eyeballs at a critic.
Killing bears and wolves to increase moose and caribou in Alaska has won the approval of the state Supreme Court.
Local theater meets Big Wild Life, apparently leaving the staff of Fairbanks candidate for Senate Joe Miller confused.