The United Fishermen of Alaska – one of the 49th state’s most powerful political entities – is mad that commercial salmon fishermen might be losing some fishing opportunities in Cook Inlet, but […]
Pain of change
Evolution
Local journalism as most Americans have known it for most of their lives is on its death bed. Its epitaph may have been written best by an anonymous, one-time “senior business writer” […]
Who to believe?
Alaska winter 2020 is either icier than in a long time, or so short on ice the census takers can’t drive the ice roads. Public radio will tell you both. The latest […]
The snow trap
A thousand feet above Alaska’s largest city, the winds were Wednesday night building toward hurricane force for the second time in 48 hours. The National Weather Service was forecasting overnight gusts to […]
The preference
Almost 50 years have passed since Alaska voters approved an amendment to the state constitution that allowed those in power to manage the state’s common property resources “subject to preferences among beneficial […]
Chief advisor
The outlaw Roland Maw, the man who quit the Alaska Board of Fisheries in 2105 and then led a willing Anchorage Daily News to suggest that his resignation had something to do […]
Fish more
Reading through the 260-page, 9/16th-inch thick Alaska Board of Fisheries Proposal Book published by the state, it is clear the one thing Cook Inlet commercial fishermen want most is more fishing time. […]
North vs. south
News Analysis As the Alaska Board of Fisheries prepares to take up the always heated issue of who gets to catch what salmon and how many in Cook Inlet, the Kenai Peninsula […]
Tangling the truth
In a sure sign that the always contentious Cook Inlet meeting of the Alaska Board of Fisheries is approaching, the state’s largest newspaper is propagandizing on the value of the state’s […]
In our genes
With the U.S. more bitterly divided than any time since the Vietnam War, is it better or worse to know that archeologists digging in northern Spain have concluded that the divisive […]
