Just when you think the American journalism trainwreck can’t get any messier, a New York Times writer breaks all the rules for newspaper departures and sets fire to every bridge behind her. […]
The journo divide
The futurist
If you are an Alaska commercial fisherman or someone who simply cares about the fate of the state’s small, rural communities still dependent on commercial fishing as their economic reason to […]
Who is dying?
Medical researchers have been telling Americans for a long, long time that the sedentary lifestyle and poor eating habits lead down the road to premature death, and now the SARS-CoV-2 virus is […]
Killing salmon
CHITINA – On the beach here in the dim light of the midnight sun at 3 a.m. with the sand spotted with the blood and scales of sockeye salmon bludgeoned to death […]
Dropping out
There are reliable reports of salmon in decent numbers at Chitina on the Copper River, and so I am on the road. Never could the American tradition of road tripping be better […]
Saving lives
Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz has expressed his vote of no confidence in the citizens of the state’s largest city and ordered them all to start wearing masks in public places to prevent […]
Destination unknown
Here comes the poll in which every real Alaskan – resident in the state at this moment or not – has been hankering to vote for a long, long time. So vote […]
Limits of science
The early return of Chinook salmon to the Kenai River – the big kings of Alaska fame – is shaping up as a disaster. No one knows why. The run […]
The science hunt
Number crunchers around the world are having a field day trying to sort out the whys and wherefores of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the driver of the Great Pandemic of 2020. The pre-print […]
A natural disaster
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is far from over, but already it can claim its place as the worst national disaster to strike the U.S in the lifetimes of nearly everyone reading this. As […]
