Two women made famous the ‘Last Great Race’ Part II of III Any history of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Races is most accurately recorded in the years BR and AR – […]
Iditarod rising
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Chasing health
Confronting the Epidemic of Sloth Physiologists, epidemiologists and big-data miners have been combing through the United Kingdom’s Biobank again, and it appears they may have come up with an answer to a […]
Changing times
A withering Iditarod faces an unknown future Part one of a series Forty years ago, a young Athabascan dog driver named Howard Albert from the village of Ruby on the Yukon River […]
Shrinking salmon
The hidden costs of Alaska hatcheries Commercial salmon fishermen all along the West Coast of North America may be paying a serious price in lost poundage to help put dollars in the […]
The great hypocrisy
There is today one simple action journalists could pursue to improve their credibility, one very simple act. STOP TRYING TO SELL THE IDEA JOURNALISTS ARE SMARTER THAN ANYONE AND EVERYONE ELSE. Just […]
Killer bears
A rare polar attack that left a 24-year-old woman and her year-old son dead in Wales, Alaska, in January appears now to fit a pattern first noticed more than three decades ago […]
Canada’s loss
UPDATE: This story has been revised from the original to reflect the similar declines in wild Southeast Alaska chum masked by an increase in hatchery chum production. As Southeast Alaska catches of […]
1,000 cuts
Media credibility in this country is at an all-time low not so much because of big media biases but because of the little errors that make it appear old media doesn’t […]
The truth benders
So finally it is clear, thanks to the exhaustive reporting of Jeff Gerth and the willingness of Columbia Journalism Review to ignore the peer pressure of the rest of the mainstream […]
Not so wild
BOISE, ID – The menu at the Anthony’s Restaurant here promised fresh, “Wild Alaska King Salmon.” I thought about it and passed. There is no food in the restaurant business […]
