Craig Medred – A home for readers and thinkers
4 days ago · Craig Medred is an independent Alaska journalist with over 35 years of professional experience as a reporter, writer & staff editor. This is his news site.
craigmedred – Craig Medred
Jan 5, 2025 · craigmedred. craigmedred.news is committed to Alaska-related news, commentary and entertainment. it is dedicated to the idea that if everyone is thinking alike, someone is not thinking. you can contact the editor directly at [email protected].
News – Craig Medred
Jan 12, 2025 · Posts about News written by craigmedred. Industrial-scale, ocean farming all good – state officials Only weeks after a Seattle biologist warned Canadians that salmon numbers in the North Pacific Ocean have reached the point where ocean-farmed fish threaten […]
About - Craig Medred
About. Craig Medred is an independent Alaska journalist who has worked out of Fairbanks, Juneau and Anchorage. By car, truck, airplane, snowmachine, pack raft, sailboat, skis, snowshoes and foot, he has traveled much of the state from Ketchikan in the south to Barrow in the north and from Nome in the west to Eagle in the east.
What next – Craig Medred
Nov 26, 2024 · Already facing a tide of outmigration, Alaska today finds its largest city pegged among the top five of the "30 Worst Places to Live in the United States.'' So much for the old idea of selling Anchorage as a comfortable, civilized, climate-change refuge on the edge of a vast wilderness ripe for recreational exploration. And…
The perpetrators – Craig Medred
Dec 16, 2024 · Who is responsible for pedestrian death record? With Anchorage having set a new record for killing pedestrians on its streets, and more than a few motorists happy to blame it on the homeless getting in the way of their cars and trucks, the time has come for Triple-A, as in the American Automobile Association, to…
Alaska idyll – Craig Medred
Apr 4, 2024 · Alaska's white pavements PLACER RIVER - The snowpack in this glacier-headed drainage 50 miles southeast of Alaska's largest city was still at least four feet thick on Wednesday and with the early morning temperatures in the 20s, a fat-tired bike could be ridden almost anywhere across the white pavements. Global warming might be transforming the…
Old becomes new - Craig Medred
Sep 24, 2021 · PLACER RIVER – The wind blew hard and cold from the north on Tuesday, and the new normal urban Alaska has come to expect seemed a long time gone.. The snow was creeping quickly down the Chugach and Kenai mountains bordering Turnagain Arm, and friends to the north in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley were already reporting the white stuff piled inches deep in Hatcher Pass.
Surprise, surprise – Craig Medred
Sep 27, 2024 · California boasts U.S. vegan capital In what is likely to come as no surprise to Alaska residents, WalletHub has declared Anchorage the least "vegetarian- & vegan-friendly" city in the country. After crunching the numbers on the cost of groceries for vegetarians, the percentage of restaurants offering vegans and vegetarians options and the per capita numbers…
What is ‘true’? – Craig Medred
Nov 12, 2024 · The horribly gray state of misinformation. A Harvard University survey of 150 of the country’s top experts on “misinformation” provides a wonderful illustration of why American journalism should have avoided the quagmire of “fact-checking,” should get out of that mudhole now and should stay out of it. Nothing has done more to damage mainstream media credibility in this century than ...
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