And so increasingly dangerous No, this is not, as some might presume, about the bears in the above video. Compared to the drivers on Anchorage roads, the city’s bears are a tiny, […]
So common
The bogeyman
Did trawlers cause AK salmon disaster? A news analysis Sept. 17 update Almost 18 million pink salmon, along with 13 million sockeye and smaller numbers of chum and coho salmon, have gone […]
Dark politics
Fairy tales and blindness The great dream of ranked-choice voting in Alaska was that voters wouldn’t “need to worry about ‘spoilers,’ or feel forced to vote for the lesser of two evils.” […]
Alaska’s mafia
Has a new don wannabe What a way to end the week. No sooner had I finished a commentary on the ‘Big Lie’ propaganda suggesting that the 49 sockeye killed as trawl […]
The big lie
Outside help AK Dems don’t need What, in God’s name, are Democrats thinking in trying to tie Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, to trawler bycatch that has absolutely nothing to do with the […]
Latest bear attack
See no evil, hear no… Update: A late-to-the party Alaska Department of Fish and Game has now added some new information to what happened in Bear Valley while managing to ignore the […]
Still great?
Iditarod faces its future With the departure of the ‘thought leader’ who promised to boost the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race by leveraging media like Michael Jordan and others did to become […]
Another bailout
Cash rewards for bad behavior For decades, commercial setnet fishermen working the beaches on the east side of Cook Inlet fought efforts to alter their fishery to reduce the bycatch of king […]
Name games
Dan versus Dan Alaska has a damn Dan problem. Or, maybe more accurately, a Dan Sullivans problem. The state’s Director of Elections on Monday ruled that one of these Sullivans, a neophyte […]
Forgotten medicine
The answer is out there…. What if scientists created a medicine that lengthened lives, cut the risk of dying from heart disease by approximately a third, reduced the risk of developing cancer by more […]
