By Matt Buxton

During the pandemic, Americans learned how painful supply chain disruptions can be. Now, a newly proposed action from the Trump administration could unintentionally make the pandemic’s supply chain disruptions seem tame.

President Donald Trump made expanding U.S. energy production the centerpiece of his America First agenda. And his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project is looking for ways to cut spending, not increase taxpayer liabilities.

Ernie Pyle is best known for his coverage of World War II, where he spent years in North Africa, Italy and the Pacific Theater. He was unique in his ability to capture the experiences of average everyday soldiers fighting overseas.

The spate of layoffs and disruption at newspapers across Washington and Oregon, from Everett to Medford and Bend to Astoria, should be a wake-up call.

This is a tale of three leaders.

Mark Zuckerberg is very sorry.

From a press release by Education Commissioner Deena Bishop, who abandoned her support for a significant increase in the base student allocation for schools after getting her job in the Dunleavy administration:

Time has flown since a job recruiter contacted me and I inked a contract in November 2022. My first columns for the Daily News-Miner told of the driving challenges my wife Gosia and I faced as we moved from a house on the Indiana-Ohio border to Fairbanks by navigating the ALCAN in mid-winter.

The population of Israel is about 10 million. This represents about half of the world’s Jewish people.

When the globe-shaking, protest-inciting, summit-shattering history of last week is finally written large, history’s ultimate chroniclers may conclude it all started with “The Misfire Heard ‘Round the World.”

One of the best Alaska traditions to grip the imagination of the world is Fat Bear Week. Voting began online Oct. 4 at the National Park Service page at https://www.nps.gov/katm/learn/fat-bear-week-2023.htm. The winner will be announced on Fat Bear Tuesday, Oct. 10.

After a mere three months in the state, I have surpassed what I consider to be a large enough Alaska milestone for me to graduate from cheechako to sourdough, despite having yet to live through a winter. I hit a moose.

A decision on Friday by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit puts in jeopardy one of the few tools that exist to deal with false speech on the internet.

Time is running out for entertainer and wildlife expert Steve Kroschel to locate a yearling bull moose reared in captivity that thought the willows were juicier on the other side of a fence and escaped from Kroschel’s 60-acre park-like estate.

Today, I hold sacred the memory of all 9/11 victims and the celebrated and the unsung 9/11 first responders who showed the world their backbones of steel and died giving their all.

My boyhood was spent in two cultures: Polish on my mother’s side, German-speaking Alsatian on my father’s. I used to tell my blue-collar father I longed to see Europe, a continent he saw through three vision blocks as a Sherman tank driver all of World War II. He saw action from North Africa…

I’m old enough to recall the old community stores that catered to the needs of locals. You know, the places where the proprietor greeted you, sliced your baloney thick or thin, and handed your kids lollipops as you left. You ran into your neighbors there, wondered if the weather ever would g…

It's a blast to the American West past.

Apparently, things haven’t much changed since the invention of the printing press when opponents smashed presses to squelch the news. Like journalists across the country, I was relieved that a Marion County, Kansas, prosecutor ruled that all Marion County Record newspaper equipment confiscat…

On Wednesday I learned that the Fairbanks Drama Association was having tryouts for the Christmas classic, “Miracle on 34th Street.”

Concerned reader Chris Tilly contacted the newspaper to wonder what Fairbanks crews were thinking when they set up two blinking electronic boards at the corner of the detour at Airport and Peger to announce the auto impound auction today at 10 a.m.

My wife Gosia and I decided to take a working vacation in Alaska early in October 2021. We landed in Anchorage and rented our usual small SUV and drove toward Kenai where I needed to do a routine freelance writing assignment.

This was the usual busy week for news at the News-Miner. Our hearts go out to those in the Interior living near the fires, and our gratitude extends to the brave souls fighting those blazes. Throw in news about national politics, school contract talks, the fair, crime and military, and you w…

GOLDEN HEART TALES: Beer and salmon: a perfect pairing

President Warren G. Harding’s historic 1923 “Voyage of Understanding” visit to Alaska shortly before his untimely death is well documented. He drove the golden spike to celebrate the Interior Alaska Railroad’s completion, and he visited Mount McKinley (now named Denali) and playfully took co…

The celebration of the Golden Days Rodeo, the northernmost rodeo in America, takes me back to 2004 and my own rodeo adventure.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg launched his latest social media platform, Threads, one day after a federal judge in Louisiana ruled the Biden administration likely colluded with Facebook and other such sites to censor unfavorable views during the pandemic.

My six-month anniversary starting work at the News-Miner occurs today. My cheechako moments still happen, and sourdough status still is far away.

Much of the pleasure in working as a journalist stems from opportunities to write outdoor columns and features for local and national magazines. My most moving assignment was writing a sad tribute column titled “To a Hunter Dying Young.”

The proposed Tetlin mine would be among the highest grade open pit gold mines in the world, if not the highest, according to Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse, the geologist and mine promoter who sold the idea to Kinross of trucking the ore nearly 250 miles across Interior Alaska to Fort Knox.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent in the Supreme Court’s affirmative action case achieved instant legendary status in certain quarters.

There were no sour faces at the June 24th Midnight Run Race No. 41. With Halloween in Fairbanks as likely to have trick-and-treaters carrying snow shovels as candy treat bags, the Midnight Sun Race has become a showcase for costumes, cute kids, and a chance for the Fairbanks community to str…

The submersible Titan is now confirmed lost.

My wife, Gosia, and I were petless until a mid-size toad came into our lives not long before we moved to Alaska.

The Tanana Valley Farmers Market celebration this weekend made me curious about the first-ever event.