Updated: June 13, 2016 If ever there was a week to illustrate the potential dangers that lurk on the very edge of civilization’s foothold in Alaska, this was it. Four confirmed dead […]
Alaska: It can kill you
New Age of Mythology
Commentary As an internet powered by what are supposedly legitimate news organizations populates itself with half-truths and whole lies, one cannot help but wonder if the U.S. is entering a New Age […]
Asking for trouble
Commentary Does any of this sound familiar? “A moose on the rampage attacked two women walking with their dogs, injuring both severely. (The people, not the dogs. Grammar is in trouble […]
Catch, release, kill fish
Part 1 of 2 If you believe the science, somewhere around 4.8 million sockeye salmon were likely caught and released in Bristol Bay last year and half them died before spawning. That’s […]
Pogo had it right
“We have met the enemy, and he is us!” Pogo, the lead character in a long-gone newspaper comic strip, observed on Earth Day, 1971. He was commenting on the environmental state of […]
Trump(ed) in Alaska
As you read this, renegade Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is in the process of being contained in the north. And what is happening in Alaska is happening all across the country. […]
The real AK bites back
Commentary North of the Alaska Range mountains, global warming took a Tuesday setback in that snowy way that tends to make some people skeptical of climate change. Call this the normal variation […]
The Trail Blazer
The time has come to give Alaskan Sarah Palin her due for putting the lie to an old adage often misattributed to Mark Twain, but once adhered to as if the country’s […]
The dying Kenai kings
UPDATED – May 20, 2016 Seven out of every 11 Kenai River late-run king salmon killed last year died in gillnets as what was once the most valuable sport fishery in Alaska […]
Second-rate journalism
These are embarrassing days to be an Alaska journalist. On Tuesday, the Washington Post matter of factly reported that “in mid-October police questioned (Johnny) Manziel after witnesses saw the (Cleveland Browns) quarterback […]
