What is old in Alaska is also new if the latest report from Feeding America is to be believed. The 40-year-old, anti-hunger group that supports food banks in cities across the nation […]
Hungry Alaska
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Vital overreach
After years of Alaska politicians complaining about “federal overreach” in the 49th state, one legislator is now arguing that it is vital in Cook Inlet, the waterway that cuts into the heart […]
COVID-19 refuge
Alaska might have ignored the opportunity to make lemonade of the COVID-19 lemon, but elsewhere others have gone looking for opportunities in the deadly pandemic driving death and fear around the globe. […]
Masked Thanksgiving
In the season of Thanksgiving in what is destined to go down in history as the era of the COVID, maybe it is time to give thanks for the time and place […]
Bear battles
Despite government officials and residents of Alaska’s largest city quietly racking up more than two dozen bear kills this year, there were still a few bruins out roaming snow-covered Anchorage as Thanksgiving […]
Evermore competition
News analysis “We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.” Microsoft founder Bill Gates […]
Masked and unmasked
News analysis A Danish study of masking branded as “controversial” long before it saw the light of day finally emerged in print on Wednesday only to add to the confusion over […]
Warming winners
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game believes global warming will continue to smile on the sockeye salmon of Bristol Bay and has forecast another huge return of the fish for next […]
Sick nation
As a child of post-war America, I grew up witness to the growth of a nation of largesse writ large. Nature is now making us pay the price. Nowhere has the SARS-CoV-2 […]
Science struggles
The integrity of science is suffering as scientists rush to save the world from the pandemic driven by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Or so say scientists from Switzerland and Slovenia who examined the […]
