Never bet against tech Part 3 of a 4-part series Now semi-retired Alaska economist Gunnar Knapp, the nation’s foremost authority on the economics of the Alaska fishing business, offered a blunt warning […]
Alaska salmon 2025, modern history III
AK Salmon 2025, modern history II
Mother of all changes Part 2 of a 4-part series For hundreds of thousands of years, change has been an undeniable and unavoidable constant for the human species. Sometimes it has crept […]
AK Salmon 2025, modern history I
The roots of disaster Part 1 of a 4-part series Thirty-five years ago, Alaska politicians and the politically powerful commercial fishing interests that had long punched above their economic weight in the […]
Moto Jihad
Why motorists hate cyclists On the bike on roads in an urban American far from Alaska, I finally discovered why some motorists so hate cyclists. Credit traffic “engineers” who’ve spent decades promoting […]
Nannyism
The costly U.S. safety lobby Alaskans might find this hard to believe, but the one of the latest of national dangers comes from people getting out of their cars, trucks and motorhomes […]
Charlie Kirk
And the threat to reason For all of those on social media and elsewhere now offering their views on the vile things, true or untrue, that the late Charlie Kirk might or […]
Liar, liar
And the questions unasked Long, long ago, an already old Alaska adventurer by the name of Dick Griffith met up with a group of Alaska Mountain Wilderness Classic racers standing on […]
Passions
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 […]
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 […]
