News: Valley mom is International Ms. Leather!
Alaskan trapper breaks pageant fur ceiling A Meadow Lakes woman who runs a trapline and tans her own furs was named International Ms. Leather at a pageant in San Francisco last weekend. It’s a…
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News: Phil Isley’s utopia (A city with few dead-end streets)
By Scott Christiansen I joined Phil Isley for a sandwich at Arctic Roadrunner last weekend. Isley is an independent candidate for Assembly Seat E, the race in which Cheryl Frasca and Tim Steele are in…
Song of the winter
By Scott Christiansen I generally don’t admit this, but I miss the Top 40 radio of the ‘70s, and the weird togetherness listeners felt if a song topped the charts, and hung for a few…
Coming soon to a roll of duck tape near you
By Scott Christiansen Crafters know stuff about duct tape the rest of us don’t. It doesn’t just come in colors. It comes in sheets, too. That’s helpful if person wants to cut custom panels and…
Touch me!
By Scott Christiansen It took longer for an Alaska Division of Elections worker to boot-up the touch-screen voting machine than it did for me to vote on it. Still, it was just about four minutes…