And the hardest goodbyes Fourteen days ago, Lars was in his element, and now he is gone. It’s horribly depressing to write that line, but it wasn’t like the end couldn’t be […]
Best Buddies
Gone viral
A lost hiker, a camera and an internet sensation A neophyte hiker did what no neophyte hiker should do in Alaska and went off trail. He ended up lost atop barren […]
Killing us softly
What the machines have done So it has come to this, the American medical community resorting to threats evoking the C-word – cancer – to try to get people to walk […]
Know-nothing journalism
Credibility dies in a field of little mistakes This is why it is painful to read what passes for news today: “Pink salmon get their nickname from their propensity […]
Everyday danger
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 […]
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 […]
