Strange are the passions of humans in how they come and go. As a kid, I was a fishing nut. Couldn’t get enough. Almost every summer day, there was fishing somewhere. We […]
Passions
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Hitting back
Like the late actor Peter Finch in the hit 1975 movie “Network,” three-time Iditarod Sled Dog Race champ Mitch Seavey is “mad as hell…and not going to take this anymore.” While new […]
Killer pave
The new figures on the national road deaths are out, and if you’re one of those who gets around on two wheels or two feet you can probably thank the millions of […]
Climate newsganda
The Guardian – the largest newspaper website in the United Kingdom – has gone all-in on climate change as the philosophical restructuring of traditional media continues. Climate change is so important, the […]
$60 million man
A jailed Wasilla businessman portrayed by Alaska’s largest newspaper as “a charming self-made millionaire and aspiring YouTube star” who dabbled in cellphone repair stores” appears now to have been one of the […]
Tech threat grows
News analysis Nothing but bad news for Alaska commercial fisheries and one of Alaska’s historically largest employers is contained in a new report from Rabobank – the huge, Dutch financial company the […]
Gone guy
Just as the short Alaska summer was beginning its slide into fall in the latter half of August 2018, 41-year-old Russian immigrant Vladimir Kostenko slipped into a backpack and hiked off into […]
Summer of peace
A year on from a record kill of problems bears in Alaska’s largest city, the Anchorage bear “problem” appears to have all but evaporated. As the bruins head for hibernation, the Alaska […]
Crudely differing views
Today along the southern edge of the North American continent, where business has been booming, there are growing concerns that a slowing global economy already dragging down oil prices could do the […]
The failed ban
The coming year marks the 30th anniversary of the state of Alaska’s attempt to control world salmon markets by banning fish farming in the 49th state. It would seem an appropriate time […]
