Yea, I hear you. We use to subscribe to both papers in order to help keep both alive. Bob Atwood was first and foremost an Anchorageite then an Alaskan. He would do what he considered best for the state. Of course, we used to laugh when the ADT received a lot of letters adverse to a position he was taking on a particular issue. He would print them alright, but chose the most dopey letter he could find on the subject, overlooking the fine comprehensive and objective ones. 

Bob was pretty much out of the picture, due age, by the time outside interests began patterns of extraordinary influence here. If he had still been in his prime one can be certain that these absentee owners wouldn't be calling the shots resulting in demise of living quality for future generations of Alaskans. When Seattle GOP seafood processors tried to run roughshod over Alaskans, Atwood was their worst nemesis, even dramatically contradicting the political stand of his own party.