January 1985 COVER: Premier Issue: LIFE WITHOUT WEIN IN THE BUSH - David Cuddy, President, First National Bank of Anchorage pictured on the cover

USIBELLI STUMPS FOR IN-STATE MARKETS - Joe Usibelli is ready to launch coal exports to Korea, but he wants Alaskans to start thinking of ways to consume their own coal

ALASKA PACIFIC'S 1985 ECONOMIC OUTLOOK?

JUNEAU LEARNS TO BOOM. BUT WILL IT LEARN TO BUST? - Alaska's capital city is winding down from an unprecedented boom that was triggered by the vote in 1982 not to fund a move of the capital from Juneau to Willow

February 1985 COVER: KIANA'S BILL LEE BUSINESS MYTHBUSTER - Now that he's proven Alaskan manufacturing can work, he's moving on to new and more challenging myths

MANUFACTURING IN ALASKA - Alaskan manufacturers continue to grow in spite of all the real and imagined obstacles

FUEL SUPPLY FIGHT FLOWS WEST - Chevron now faces competition on several fronts in western Alaska.

GREENS CREEK: Silver and Symbols

March 1985 COVER: PUBLISHER ROBERT ATWOOD: Pushing growth for Anchorage's life and times

ALASKA'S RAILROAD DAY ONE: A pictorial of the railroad transfer

THE NEW ALASKA RAILROAD: State-owned, but business-oriented

NORTH SLOPE'S SHALLOW CRUDE DEFIES TECHNOLOGY, ECONOMICS: Some of the North Slope's most substantial crude oil deposits are too close to the surface to extract economically, but ARCO is looking for ways to overcome the obstacles

LIMITED ENTRY: THE JURY'S STILL OUT - Ten years into the program, it's still too early to say if limited entry is having the desired effect on Alaska's fishing industry

DAVID AND GOLIATH - Once it was easy to tell which was which, but these days it's hard to tell which is the underdog and which is the champion in Anchorage's newspaper war.

CONTROL DATA BRINGS MYSTERY TO ALASKA'S FRONTIERS

COAL-LOADING FACILITY COMPLETES LINK WITH KOREA

April 1985 COVER: FRANK TURPIN: Oilman to Railroader - He exchanged the Trans-Alaska Pipeline for track on the Alaska Railroad

"REACH OUT" Takes on new meaning with Alascom's video conferencing

THE GREAT SHAKEOUT - Retail demand in Anchorage is up, but capacity is up even more

PORTS OF BRAWL - Valdez, Seward, Anchorage and Whittier have joined the carriers serving them in the battle for freight

BATTLE OF THE RED TAPE BULGE - Streamlining of Alaska's permitting process for resource development is saving industry time and money in the bureaucratic jungle

WHITTIER AWAITS WORLDS LARGEST HATCHERY

May 1985 COVER: KEN CALHOUN BUILDS A HERITAGE - He's built Heritage Homes & Investments into Alaska's largest residential real estate operation by staying a step ahead of the rest

BACK IN BUSINESS - After a false start at Dutch Harbor in 1984, Alaska is back in the multibillion dollar surimi business with a plant in Kodiak

TELECOMMUNICATIONS TUG OF WAR - Rural Alaska may be caught between the forward march of technology and the potential pitfalls of competition in its quest for 21st century telecommunications capabilities

LOW-TECH TRAUMA

A POCKET TELECOMMUNICATIONS PRIMER

ALASKA'S TIMBER INDUSTRY: Going, Going, Coming Back?

SHHH! ALASKA AIRLINES DROPS ITS DECIBELS: Alaska Airlines has entered a new age of "quiet" jet service with the first deliveries of McDonnell Douglas MD-83s

THE DAY THE INDEMNITY DIED - If your business insurance rates have skyrocketed 200 percent with your latest premium notice, you're one of the lucky ones

June 1985 COVER: TOPPERS' SWANK DEFIES DEFEAT - When her husband died in 1977, no one was giving Toppers a chance of surviving

ALASKA'S VISITOR INDUSTRY: New dollars bring in new sophistication

CHAPTER 11: PROLOGUE OR EPILOGUE? - Timing may be the key to a Chapter 11's chances for success

EN GARDE! - Many companies are finding that dealing with the media doesn't always have to be an us vs. them encounter

July 1985 COVER: WHY RYAN KEEPS ON FLYIN - When Wilfred Ryan became president of tiny Unalakleet Air Taxi Service in 1977, many dismissed him as a good pilot who was doomed as an administrator. Wilfred "Boyuck" Ryan pictured on the cover

THE CATCH 22 APPROACH TO TV: Low power and lofty returns

THE MAIN EVENT - It's time for the granddaddy of all Alaskan fishing seasons with the start-up of the red salmon run at Bristol Bay

CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE - With trade tensions mounting between the United States & Japan, are Alaska's vast natural resources a strategically positioned pawn or a potential innocent victim?

SATISFYING ALASKA'S APPETITE - Alaska's hunger is growing daily, but so are the restaurant industry's sophistication and capacity to satisfy the appetite

LIQUOR LICENSE ROULETTE: Who will beat the odds?

August 1985 COVER: AL SWALLING: Still building Alaska

CRUISING SOUTHCENTRAL - The cruise ship industry has long been vital to the economies of many Southeast Alaskan communities, but now an Anchorage-based tour operator is targeting Southcentral packages as well

THIS YEAR NO NEWS WAS GOOD NEWS - During the 1985 Alaska legislative session, lawmakers did business its biggest favor by not doing much to it

FULL HOUSE OR BLUFF? - Deciding who's building and who's bluffing in Anchorage's hotel business is a lot like watching a bunch of professional poker players

HEAVY CONSTRUCTION'S MULTIMILLION-DOLLAR QUESTION: Is there life after Petro-Besity?

JADE JEOPARDY - Seemingly insurmountable competitive and logistical barriers have had NANA's investment in "green" swimming in "red" for the last seven years

ALASKAN BUSINESS: The early years

September 1985 COVER: FAIRBANKS' BILL FOWLER: AIC's Eastwood in Disguise?

THE FIRMING OF THE FAIRBANKS ECONOMY - Paced by import substitution and population growth, the Fairbanks economy is leading the way in Alaska's urban growth

APPRECIATING ALASKAN ART - Think of "appreciating" as a verb or an adjective; it fits in either case. But experts suggest you think first of appreciating your Alaskan art investment as in "enjoying" it and second of appreciating as in "getting rich"

WEANING FROM THE RAILROAD: Skagway seeks new stimuli

October 1985 COVER: THE NEW 49ERS

DR. ARCHERS LESSON IN DIGESTION - A 60 percent increase in sales made TravelCenter the fastest growing company among the New 49ers, but rapid ingestion led to a case of indigestion at the No. 5 firm

OF KINGS AND CHUMS: An economic fish tale of the Kenai peninsula

DENALI: The great one among mountains, the little one among banks

THE NEW UN-SURANCE - Insurance broker David Stratton explains why premiums are skyrocketing when they're available at any price

ANGLING FOR REVENUES IN ALASKA'S WILDERNESS - Sport hunters and fishermen pump millions into Alaska's economy every year

THE $100 DELIVERY: When speed and reliability are more important than the cost, Anchorage businesses reach for their wallets and their phones and call Georges Courier Service

November 1985 COVER: HICKEL INVESTMENT CO. THE SECOND GENERATION - Joe, Bob & Wally Jr., Hickel pictured on the cover

ICE MAN OF THE ARCTIC - Anchorage resident Dick Ragle makes his mark on the Arctic by paving the Beaufort Sea with expressways of ice

IN SEARCH OF THE SILICON TUNDRA - High-tech pioneers in Alaska say the state could become a mecca for high-tech businesses, but the obstacles are numerous

ALASKA'S SALMON HATCHERIES: Breeding grounds for overcapacity?

CAPTAIN COOK'S FLAG-WAVING TRIBUTE TO FOREIGN DIGNITARIES

SOUTH AFRICA: Another Persian Gulf for Alaska's resources?

December 1985 COVER: ARCO'S HAROLD HEINZE: Oil's voice of reason

OLYMPIC HOSTING COSTS: 1,000,000,000

ATU SERVICES VS PRIVATE ENTERPRISE: Loaded questions of profit and propriety

TROUBLED FREIGHT OVER SOUTHEAST'S WATERS - Foss Alaska Lines, the largest freight carrier serving Southeast Alaska, rocked the region earlier this year with the announcement it was discontinuing Panhandle service