The news these days is so bad it could make you sick. Or so say researchers from Texas Tech University who studied what is being called “problematic news consumption.” “It has been […]
Dangerous words
Heroes and villains
Lance Mackey, the four-time winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race who lived his life fast and loose and broke rules both written and unwritten, is dead at the age of […]
Our war within
Anyone who has been paying the least bit of attention to the news in this country these days can’t have missed the serious culture war now raging, and if there is someone […]
Battle dress
“The Salmon Sisters” – an entrepreneurial pair of young women from Homer, Alaska – added a tailored version of a kangaroo-pocketed pullover or shift or what the rafting company NRS calls a […]
Fear’s baggage
Could the media-driven fear of the SARS-CoV-2 virus now be making the disease worse? The question is hard to avoid in the wake of some of the findings coming out of studies […]
The muskox killer
For 22 years, Paul Atkins, an avid hunter and outdoorsman, taught school on the edge of the Bering Sea in the remote community of Kotzebue where the winters are long and cold […]
Unhealthy, unfit, dead
With almost everyone except the Chinese now in agreement the SARS-CoV-2 virus is here to stay (who woulda thunk it), and the medical community debating what to do about new vaccines and […]
Unhappy fishermen
KENAI – Friday found the beaches at the mouth of Alaska’s most fought-over river woefully short of dipnetters willing to help stop the possible “over-escapement” of sockeye salmon so feared by the […]
Natural defenses
If you are among the minority of Americans yet to catch the pandemic disease Covid-19, or one of the majority who suffered a very mild case, thank your T cells. The all-around, […]
Unfit city
Alaska’s largest city came in below average for fitness in the American College of Sports Medicine’s just-released survey of the health of the 100 largest cities in the United States, and it’s […]
