Lifesaver offered old Americans fails Why are so many Americans so unhealthy? Could it be because the health-care industry and average Americans themselves just don’t want to make the effort to fix […]
Big fat flop
Lesson lost
The true American killer What should have been the main lesson learned by the survivors of the pandemic of the old and the ill would appear to have been missed by those […]
The Angry American
No ‘peace on earth, goodwill to all’ Comes now that holiday season when so many will be walking on eggshells at family gatherings in an angry nation. Credit, in part, a political […]
Alaska Salmon 2025, modern history IV
Food for pets Part 4 of a 4-part series The road to hell on which the Alaska salmon fishing industry finds itself today was paved with good intentions that stretch all the […]
Alaska salmon 2025, modern history III
Never bet against tech Part 3 of a 4-part series Now semi-retired Alaska economist Gunnar Knapp, the nation’s foremost authority on the economics of the Alaska fishing business, offered a blunt warning […]
AK Salmon 2025, modern history II
Mother of all changes Part 2 of a 4-part series For hundreds of thousands of years, change has been an undeniable and unavoidable constant for the human species. Sometimes it has crept […]
AK Salmon 2025, modern history I
The roots of disaster Part 1 of a 4-part series Thirty-five years ago, Alaska politicians and the politically powerful commercial fishing interests that had long punched above their economic weight in the […]
Moto Jihad
Why motorists hate cyclists On the bike on roads in an urban American far from Alaska, I finally discovered why some motorists so hate cyclists. Credit traffic “engineers” who’ve spent decades promoting […]
Nannyism
The costly U.S. safety lobby Alaskans might find this hard to believe, but the one of the latest of national dangers comes from people getting out of their cars, trucks and motorhomes […]
Charlie Kirk
And the threat to reason For all of those on social media and elsewhere now offering their views on the vile things, true or untrue, that the late Charlie Kirk might or […]
