Rod Boyce
Assistant Managing Editor
Call Rod at 907-459-7575.
Assistant managing editor Rod Boyce, 46, 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 (and still follows the Los Angeles Angels of
Major League Baseball) but graduated from Humboldt State University in
Northern California. He has been a journalist since the mid-1980s, first as
a reporter at a couple of small newspapers and then, while at The Sacramento
Union, becoming an editor. He later worked at The Anchorage Times, which
closed in 1992, and for a chain of rural Alaska newspapers.
His life outside of the News-Miner? His family—wife, Julie, and daughter,
Edie—compete for time with two dozen sled dogs. The dogs of Little Chena
Kennel have been a part of his life, and of his wife’s, for nearly a decade.
Also, he is excited to have recently learned that his small collection of
manual typewriters of the 1930s through the 1960s actually has some monetary
value.
Recent Stories
- 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.