Tag Archives: Alaska

Press Freedom is not Negotiable – A Rewrite under Protest

(This letter was submitted to the Alberni Valley News on October 16, 2025) Dear Editor, I am a little stunned. This week, a vice president of Carpenter Media, the new American owner of the Alberni Valley News and other former Black Press papers, contacted me about a letter submitted a week earlier but not published. …

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I welcome you, northern neighbours.

(This letter was sent to the Anchorage Daily News on March 18, 2025, it was published online the same day.) Dear Editor, I was mildly dumbfounded when I stumbled upon Mr. Crawford’s recent letter extolling the virtues of Alaska joining Canada… and double-double-dumbfounded when I realized it was in response to Mr. Jones. Is this …

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