A new study is out from the Alaska Section of Epidemiology underlining just how tiny the risk of being attacked by a bear in the 49th state. It’s almost certain to add to […]
Be afraid
Killers on the road
I live in a state overloaded with guns, and I fear death. But it is not the guns that scare me. It is motor vehicles. Today it was a woman with a […]
Don’t do it!
What Not To Do Wednesday (#WNTDW) – the Facebook fable of the week from the Anchorage Police Department (APD) – today became its own #WNTDW. Shortly after the day’s #WNTDW popped up […]
The killer bus
All deaths in the Alaska wild are not the same. When someone goes looking for danger and ends up dead, that’s on him or her. But when people are tempted into tragedy […]
Pie cutting
What would Alaskans think if the state dealt fiscally with the oil industry the way it does with the fishing industry? The question begs to be asked with the issuance of the […]
The looking glass
Summer has come to Alaska and with it the annual flood of Outside writers and reporters to pontificate on what is wrong with the 49th state or probe its weighty environmental issues. […]
Journalogrpahy? Stenoism?
Sometimes the state of journalism in this country today is enough to make someone who has spent a life in the business want to cry. Here is the Anchorage Daily News, the […]
Pocketbook voting
Clearly a significant number of Alaskans are upset about Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s budget vetoes. How about everyone be given the opportunity to vote their pocketbooks to show how many and how upset? […]
Whineland
Once Alaska was home to the toughest, most adaptable people on the planet. And then the white folk showed up. Since then it’s been pretty much all downhill, starting with the barely […]
Alaskaland entry fee
A cash-strapped state of Alaska long looking for a way to make a buck off non-resident workers and tourists might turn its attention to France which is about to impose an “eco-tax” […]
