The strange things we love With every passing year, the tidal marshes at the head of Turnagain Arm remind me more of how physically brutal that which I love to do so […]
Passions
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Journalism’s failure
The knowledge gap Many in these unUnited States today believe the big problem with American journalism is political bias, and that is a problem. But the even bigger problem is laziness, ignorance […]
The Rogoff legacy
Pt Capital cofounder prison bound One of the founders of the Alaska investment firm Pt Capital – Californian Joseph Neal Sanberg, “Joe” to his friends – has agreed to plead guilty to […]
The bogeyman
Data contradicts feelings Alaska Commissioner of Fish and Game Doug Vincent-Lang went to Soldotna for a fishing conference this week, stated one thing obvious about the decline in Alaska king salmon, and […]
Shrinking or sinking?
Can an ever smaller Iditarod survive? Fifteen years ago, I wrote a book titled “Graveyard of Dreams: Dashed Hopes and Shattered Aspirations Along Alaska’s Iditarod Trail” that the Iditarod refused to sell […]
Going down
Oh-oh moment for Alaska salmon season With the Alaska commercial salmon season now more than 80 percent done with a harvest lagging behind the pre-season forecast, as was the case last year, […]
Covid silos
Will this science live on? Remember when we were all standing six feet apart in lines thinking that doing so was going to help protect us from Covid-19? Well, a team of […]
Not ours
But cheer up, Alaska not worst The good old days of a 49th state rich in oil revenues that boosted all kinds of community projects might be over, and the culture war […]
Sockeye boom
Big question is why After years of mainly sitting on Cook Inlet beaches, commercial setnet salmon fishermen were back on the water this week as returning sockeye offered a lesson in how […]
Whose fault?
Musher blamed for dog death As part of accepting at least some responsibility for the death of a dog in this year’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, the Iditarod Trail Committee last […]
