When historians look back at March 1, 2016, they will hail it as the day one man overcame obstacles and…
Are there any sociology graduate students out there looking for a dissertation topic? Oh brilliant minds, if you haven’t figured…
Why, hello there friend of 3.57 degrees of separation. We don’t know each other yet, but according to a recent…
The Iniskin quake so shook up the Betster last week that yours truly totally forgot about one of the most…
Remember KLM Flight 876, the jet that went through the Redoubt Volcano ash in 1989? All four engines shut down…
Next Monday honors the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., widely considered the man who inspired the modern Civil Rights movement….
Seven days into the new year, and already it’s shaping up to be a doozy. To recap the news so…
As our planet rounds the point on its revolution that we arbitrarily call a new year, you might think to…
By one of those odd coincidences, today marks not just Christmas Eve, but Eid Milad ul-Nabi, the birthday of the…
Congratulations, citizens. If you’re a new Alaska resident and you’ve stuck it out this long, hurrah. On Monday you will…
On Monday the Homer City Council passed the budget for 2016, thus showing that unlike the Alaska Legislature they can…
Almost 400 years ago in September 1620, 102 immigrants on the Mayflower landed in Plymouth, Mass. Over the winter, almost…
We Alaskans know about darkness. We know about the chill that descends upon us, sucking joy from life. The events…
