Lack of consequences = dangerous roads The question of the moment is simple: “Who killed Carlton Higgins?” The Anchorage Police Department (APD) knows, but it won’t say. Why? Because APD is […]
Everyday danger
Exercise is a vaccine
The SARS-CoV-2 virus is surging again, something that was predictable given the way its evolution seems to be tracking that of the Spanish flu, and much of the U.S. medical community […]
The final frontier
Billions for old when new appears cheaper Residents of remote villages in rural Alaska are singing the praises of Starlink – a SpaceX satellite array that beams the internet to anywhere on […]
Flailing policy
Where Anchorage bike policy went wrong With the Anchorage Assembly patting itself on the back for supposedly making Alaska’s largest city safer and friendlier for so-called “vulnerable road users,” […]
Talking safety
Anchorage’s phony new bike law On the day a well-meaning Anchorage Assembly approved a new bike ordinance claimed to make the state’s largest city safer for those who pedal, I was […]
Anti-facta
Journalism’s know-it-all class Remember that know-it-all classmate we all encountered in school at some time in life? You know, the obnoxious one who had answers to everything all the time and was […]
Slothdemic
Exercise, the medicine most Americans refuse Nearly 1.17 million Americans are now reported dead of Covid-19, and yet most of those still living seem to have missed what should have been the […]
Market dictates
The history behind rock-bottom salmon prices With Bristol Bay fishermen fuming over the rock-bottom low prices being paid for wild sockeye salmon this year, maybe it is time to revisit how […]
Transparency
Bay commercial fishermen want transparency Commercial fishermen in Bristol Bay were today protesting the low prices being paid for their catches of wild sockeye salmon this year and demanding the state to […]
Goodbye ‘bou?
Lack of caribou cancels subsistence hunt The big problem with Alaska’s so-called “subsistence” hunting law is today being clearly illustrated in the Nelchina Basin 100 miles northeast of the 49th state’s largest […]
