Exercise, the medicine most Americans refuse Nearly 1.17 million Americans are now reported dead of Covid-19, and yet most of those still living seem to have missed what should have been the […]
Slothdemic
Market dictates
The history behind rock-bottom salmon prices With Bristol Bay fishermen fuming over the rock-bottom low prices being paid for wild sockeye salmon this year, maybe it is time to revisit how […]
Transparency
Bay commercial fishermen want transparency Commercial fishermen in Bristol Bay were today protesting the low prices being paid for their catches of wild sockeye salmon this year and demanding the state to […]
Goodbye ‘bou?
Lack of caribou cancels subsistence hunt The big problem with Alaska’s so-called “subsistence” hunting law is today being clearly illustrated in the Nelchina Basin 100 miles northeast of the 49th state’s largest […]
The narrative
A lesson in how news is spun The Alaska Department of Fish and Game made a huge mistake in the wake of the aerial execution of nearly 100 brown/grizzly bears and a […]
Worse than ever
Obesity epidemic appears underestimated Americans might be even fatter than the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have been warning for years, physicians were told at the Endocrine Society meeting in Chicago […]
Dogged problem
Call for Anchorage leash law rising again Summer has come to Alaska’s largest city; local trails are busy with Anchoragites; and dogs are once again rivaling the now Portlandesque problem of the […]
Killers on the road
And the foolishness of toothless regulation Fueled by good intentions, a trio of politicians in Alaska’s largest city has drafted a new ordinance to protect “vulnerable road users” that is […]
Beam me up
Agendas drive the news Vanity Fair is now running a story suggesting the New York Times, the Washington Post and Politico passed on “a Seemingly Bombshell Report About UFOs” for reasons of […]
Bad good deeds
And the power of government status On May 20 of this year, Clifford Walters – a well-meaning, 78-year-old Hawaiian tourist visiting Yellowstone National Park – tried to save a bison calf. The […]
