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Rod Boyce

Managing Editor

Call Rod at 907-459-7585.

Managing editor Rod Boyce, 47, has lived in Fairbanks since coming to the Daily News-Miner in 1994 and has been in Alaska since 1991. He was raised in Southern California but graduated from Humboldt State University in Northern California. He has been a journalist since the mid-1980s, first as a reporter at small newspapers in Southern California and in the Sierra Nevada foothills and then later at The Sacramento Union, where he was a reporter before becoming assistant city editor.

He left the Union in 1991 to work at The Anchorage Times as an assistant city editor. After the Times folded in 1992, he went to work for a chain of rural Alaska newspapers, a job that included doing temporary editing duty in newspapers offices in Kotzebue and Bethel. He worked as city editor for most of his time at the Daily News-Miner before becoming managing editor in August 2008.

He and his wife have a 4-year-old daughter, one cat and a kennel of about two dozen recreational and racing sled dogs. They live in Two Rivers, in what they affectionately refer to as the News-Miner's "Two Rivers Bureau."

Recent Stories

Palin had Super Tuesday questions about McCain's views on resource development: Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008; FAIRBANKS -- Gov. Sarah Palin had less-than robust support for Sen. John McCain in his presidential quest earlier this year in the run up to the Alaska Republican Party’s presidential preference balloting.
President Bush to visit Eielson on Monday: Friday, Aug. 1, 2008; FAIRBANKS -- President Bush will visit the Fairbanks area on Monday, according to an announcement issued today by the White House.
The government's loose leash: Federal earmarks help support Alaska programs. Too often, how that money is used goes unchecked; Wednesday, March 28, 2007; The federal indictment against Jim and Chris Hayes, for all its detail, is silent on the government's own role in what it alleges transpired between the Hayeses, their church and the nonprofit center in which they are so central.
Most tax-exempt organization information is public: Tuesday, March 27, 2007; Information about the funding and expenses of federally tax-exempt organizations is, in most circumstances, required by law to be public.
The pay at the top: Chris Hayes as executive director of LOVE Social Services and in the midst of a federal criminal case; Tuesday, March 27, 2007; As the year 2000 closed, little more than 10 months would remain before Jim Hayes would give up the $75,000 annual salary he was drawing as mayor of the city of Fairbanks. His nine years as mayor, six of them with that full-time salary, would be coming to an end. He would be 55 when he walked out from behind the mayor's desk for the last time.
Much of budget devoted to personnel costs: Tuesday, March 27, 2007; Total personnel costs - including travel, benefits and board member expenses - proposed by LOVE Social Services in paperwork for the five grants through the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Justice accounted for about $1.2 million of the $2.9 million awarded to the agency for the 2001-2007 period the grants were intended to cover.
What was and wasn't done?: From high-speed computers to playground equipment to a new gym floor - the Hayeses' grant requests covered a gamut of goods; Monday, March 26, 2007; The glass-enclosed computer lab inside the LOVE Social Services Center has 12 Dell computers, arranged in a horseshoe along three of the lab's four walls. The lab sat empty on one early February afternoon, just before the expected arrival of children at the tutoring and mentoring center in South Fairbanks.
Old church, new church: How the Hayeses secured government grants, built a church and founded a social service organization, all in the name of LOVE; Sunday, March 25, 2007; In October 2001, a few days before the election that would select the next mayor of the city of Fairbanks, Jim Hayes sat for an interview with the News-Miner as he prepared to give up the office he had held for nine years. Already he had served longer as mayor than any other person in the city's history.
FOIA requests integral to Hayes investigation: Sunday, March 25, 2007; Much of the material used as the basis for this series of stories on the government's funding of LOVE Social Services was obtained through several requests made under the federal Freedom of Information Act from 2005 through 2007.
LOVE Social Services strives to maintain community outreach: Sunday, March 25, 2007; Beneath the federal investigation surrounding Jim and Chris Hayes is a program that aims to help young people from low-income families do better at school and in the job market. The charges against the Hayeses don't take issue with the work reportedly done by the tutors and other volunteers of LOVE Social Services inside the old church building that is the focal point of the government's allegations of wrongdoing.