What Alaskans really want Of Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator credited with the invention of the philosophy of fascism, it was once said in praise that he “made the trains run on […]
Good roads
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The know-it-all problem
News as propaganda kills trust Sometimes it is hard to tell whether scientists or journalists are most responsible for the pervasive global warming skepticism in the world’s largest and most powerful […]
Rundown and dead
Update: Alaska State Troopers say they have now cited a 28-year-old Healy man on charges of “negligent driving” in connection with this collision. They say Austin Gibbs was charged after “a […]
The great addiction
More than a century on from when Henry Ford changed America forever with the introduction of the Model T, the time has come to ask whether we still own motor vehicles […]
New, “new journalism”
How PR stole the show If a New Orleans law firm is to be believed, Alaska is the nation’s deadliest state for “freeway driving.” The 10-person firm of Scott Vicknair Law did […]
Tough to predict
Good-bye new norm, hello old Alaska’s largest city was still digging out from under more than three feet of “equal chances” on Monday with still more snowfall in the forecast for the […]
The disrupter
The staying power of Trump After some time spent in America’s flyover country, it is time to talk about Donald Trump, the former President now in trouble with the law in New […]
A business in crisis
Alaska salmon processors paint a grim picture After years of choking on record runs of Bristol Bay sockeye salmon and near-record runs of heavily farmed, low-value pink salmon, the Alaska fishing industry […]
E-flailings
U.S health and transport problems are us Today in these unUnited States of America, nearly 2,000 people will die of heart disease and another 1,700 or so will die of cancer. And […]
Carnage
The victims of convenience EASTERN KANSAS – The carcasses of the dead littered the shoulders of Interstate 70 heading west through the tree-covered Flint Hills on the road toward the prairie. There […]
