Charles Wohlforth

Our city was never beautiful. But once upon a time, we tried harder.

Alaska’s political leadership will have to overcome the embarrassment of their big gas line dream going flat. It’s really no one’s fault.

With Fischer’s death, Sunday, Alaska lost the last of our statehood leaders. His life had transformed the 20th century’s deepest traumas into hope for a new state.

Fischer, who remained active in Alaska affairs into his 90s, died at his home in Anchorage after a long period of declining health.

Who doesn’t include their own bodily integrity in the meaning of freedom? Or the privacy of their most intimate medical decisions?

With Alaska stuck in a long economic downturn and beset by social problems, an author and former ADN columnist offers solutions. What have we done right, and wrong, and what decisions might change Alaska in another generation?

You can make more money with your mind than with your body. But Alaska’s leaders don’t seem to get that.

What if, instead of dividends and tax-free government, Alaska had invested that money in pre-K through university education?

How to turn Alaska around: Fifty years after big oil finds made Alaska the richest state, it has fallen to near last place on indicators of health, prosperity and hope. Universal pre-K could help address that, a generation from now. (First of three parts)

I thought I knew Jack’s story before I read the pages of his unpublished memoir — but I knew a lot less about my friend than I realized.

It’s hard to imagine Alaska without the contributions Arliss Sturgulewski made.

Ellis, who represented Anchorage in the Alaska Legislature for 30 years, was a good man and good at his job.

Gravel met the biggest national issues with brash, idealistic stands, some ahead of their time.

Alaska has arrived back where it was before its residents first showed the grit and vision that proved they deserved to be full American citizens with their own state.

If Alaska blows the money in the Permanent Fund Earnings Reserve on big dividends, there won’t be a basis upon which to grow a new economy.