Just about everyone - politicians, pundits, journalists, voters, bureaucrats and bloggers - complains that elections are won and lost for superficial reasons.
Dawn was breaking over the Wrangell Mountains when Rick Collins faced the decision no parent should ever have to make. He could stay where he was with his arms wrapped around son Jake until the 22-year-old died, or he could make a days-long journey for help knowing the odds were low that rescuers would make it back before Jake slipped from unconsciousness into death.
The public gets its first chance next month to tell prison project contractors where to put a new medium-security prison for up to 2,251 prisoners in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough.
