Twas the day after Christmas, and across all the lands; the omicron variant was stalking holiday bands. The gifting all over, the eating well done; The good Dr. Fauci warned of the […]
The nightmare after Xmas
Losing the battle
The Alaska commercial salmon season is long over and fading fast from memory, but the salmon business is still rolling along in Norway with record sales. The Norwegian Seafood Council started the […]
The Oo threat
The big, global news over the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. should have come as a surprise to no one. SARS-CoV-2 spun off a new, even-more infectious variant – this one named […]
Misinformation madness
Enough with the ranting about “misinformation.” The country is getting close to “Red Scare” territory, and worse than that, the ranting does not work. DOES NOT WORK! Ranting about misinformation is […]
Fear not
If worrying about the global pandemic has left you clinically depressed, there may now be good news. A study in the Lancet, a respected British medical journal, is reporting that fluvoxamine, a […]
The dark side
Backed by the conservative Pacific Legal Defense Foundation, three Homer fishermen have gone to court to try to overturn the pending closure of commercial salmon netting in the federal waters of Cook […]
Déjà vu all over again
Now almost two years into the Great Pandemic, humans are discovering they’re not nearly as smart as they’d like to believe, and clearly not above the nature they once thought they had […]
The soft Americans
HIGH ABOVE FLYOVER COUNTRY – Encased in a tube full of masked humans carried on the wings of a Boeing 757 some 35,000 feet above the lights of civilization spread around […]
COVID stalks elderly
If you’re an older Alaskan and you’re not doing your best to hide from the SARS-CoV-2 virus these days, you haven’t been paying attention. The seven-day moving average for infections that develop […]
Moose-arrazi
The annual, post-rut congregation of bull moose has arrived in Powerline Pass above Alaska’s largest city, and with it a golden opportunity to harass the wildlife. Some simply call this “wildlife […]
