The ADN won the Pulitzer for an expose of the Teamsters Union, apparently, long before you were around as the Mat-Maid story was years later.  ADN is better than a majority of the newspapers online or in print throughout the nation as the corporate owners operate strictly for profit without any social conscience or journalistic ethics whatsoever.  Its Arctic environmental articles can be found nowhere else.  The inclusion of many Alaska-based writers and reporters provides home-grown content.  The resurrection of "We Alaskans" is worth it alone.  All of the things missing from the McClatchy era when corporate business gurus jettisoned the best aspects of the previous editions.  Name one better paper anywhere in the nation.