by Hank Nuwer | Nov 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
Fairbanks, AK, I swear, is as smalltown as any town in America. I called the local hospital today to get an appointment for a colonoscopy. The male operator asked for my name. “Nuwer,” I said. “Oh, must be Hank Nuwer,” he said. Uhhuh. Like I...
by Hank Nuwer | Nov 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
by Hank Nuwer, Winchester News-Gazette column I don’t gamble, but if I did my adrenaline might skyrocket as it did the night I entered an online Great North Auction for the stamp collection of the late Russell Hobart Green, Jr. of Fairbanks. I knew exactly what was in... by Hank Nuwer | Nov 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
Weekends fly by all too fast, don’t they? One week ago Saturday my wife Gosia and I enjoyed the incredible vistas on the highway south of Delta Junction and north of Paxson. The next day I took Gosia for her first trip on the Dalton Highway, but we did not drive too... by Hank Nuwer | Nov 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
During the late 1970s, 1980s and early ’90s, I was a contributing sports editor for Inside Sports, Sport and Success (business) magazines. It was a different era then and sportswriters like me writing 3,000- to 7,500-word features had a lot more access to athletes and... by Hank Nuwer | Nov 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
It’s a story as old as the story of human progress. A new discovery or innovation heralded for its efficacy is suspected to have harmful effects that require ingenuity on the part of researchers to find an antidote to the unintended causes. I consider it compelling... by Hank Nuwer | Nov 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
Far from Randolph County: A classroom runs through the farm Hank Nuwer, now with the Winchester News-Gazette long distance. His column is called “Far from Randolph County”. https://www.winchesternewsgazette.com/ Chances are when you were back in school,...