PENDELTON, Ore. – On a 70-degree, June Friday with the air dry and a gentle breeze blowing – near perfect conditions for human-powered transportation – only the poor and a few children […]
Warming delusion
Overly simplified
Anchorage, Alaska is a city laced with bear-baiting stations, so the city’s political leaders have decided to crack down on homeowners to solve the problem of constant conflicts between people and bears. […]
Thank Pebble
Inadvertent though Pebble’s role might be, the hugely controversial, proposed, copper mine near Lake Iliamna clearly deserves some credit for inspiring at least a small effort to pick up some of the […]
The fever
What salmon do to people in Alaska: A neighbor came by today wanting to borrow fishing gear. He doesn’t fish. Or at least not with rod and reel. Doesn’t matter. He’d heard […]
No fix
These are tough times for American journalism. A Pew Research survey out at the start of the month found the citizenry ranking “made-up news” one of the countries greatest problems, and they […]
Sea change?
News analysis Could what Alaskans often view as the big, bad, faraway federal government be poised to lead northern fisheries management back to where the founders of the 49th state wanted to […]
Bearlandia
The recalcitrant black bear brought to an end a day when too much time was wasted on Facebook engaged in discussions about bears. They focused mainly on protection: bells, air horns, flares, […]
Comment now
The time has come to talk about online comments, or maybe the time is well past. What seems a long time ago in a world now all different, Debbie McKinney, a reporter […]
Propagandists
The Russians are not to blame for this country’s fake news problem. It’s the damn old folks. “On average, users over 65 shared nearly seven times as many articles from fake news […]
Bad drivers
Instead of just arguing over who the worst scofflaws – motorists or cyclists – the Danes have taken a novel approach and actually studied road traffic. The results? The bad behavior of […]
