The strange things we love With every passing year, the tidal marshes at the head of Turnagain Arm remind me more of how physically brutal that which I love to do so […]
Passions
Journalism’s failure
The knowledge gap Many in these unUnited States today believe the big problem with American journalism is political bias, and that is a problem. But the even bigger problem is laziness, ignorance […]
Shrinking or sinking?
Can an ever smaller Iditarod survive? Fifteen years ago, I wrote a book titled “Graveyard of Dreams: Dashed Hopes and Shattered Aspirations Along Alaska’s Iditarod Trail” that the Iditarod refused to sell […]
Whose fault?
Musher blamed for dog death As part of accepting at least some responsibility for the death of a dog in this year’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, the Iditarod Trail Committee last […]
Our dying hearts
Americans even unhealthier than you thought Unless you’ve been walking around with your eyes closed, the general decline in health in these unUnited States should have long been obvious in the abundance […]
National decay
The Make America Fit Again dilemma Lost in the fog of a cultural war that has been raging for years now in these UnUnited States of Amercia are some of the biggest […]
Saving lives
Easy solution for safer streets If the stories told by the many motorists who claim to have been traumatized by near misses with homeless pedestrians on Anchorage streets are true, maybe […]
The pushers
Leave it to the American College of Cardiology to out American physicians for what so many of them have become: drug pushers. The College this week declared that “NuSH therapies” – short […]
Iditarod spirit
What exactly is the “spirit of the Iditarod” in these times? This is a question that has been begging to be asked since the Iditarod Trail Committee earlier this week […]
Beautiful & deadly
McKinley’s first death of the year Brooklyn-born Alex Chiu fell in love with the mountains of the West, found himself lured north to Alaska by the biggest of them all, and tragically […]
