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 […]
Saving lives
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 […]
Deadly easy
The ‘Soft American’ grows ever softer With the unUnited States of America having become, collectively, the fattest, unfittest, unhealthiest and, in some ways, unfriendliest nations in the Western world thanks to the […]
Good or not so?
Nobody yet knows After decades of ignoring the problem of deadly Chinook salmon bycatch in the Cook Inlet set gillnet fishery, commercial fishermen are now pushing for a whole-scale shift to seemingly […]
Stayin’ Alive
The ironclad case for self-medication With the deadliest pandemic of these times now fading into the rearview mirror, the time has come to consider the biggest element of the story missed by […]
Reality bites
Alaska’s struggling salmon business While the North Pacific Ocean appears to have hit peak salmon – possibly to the detriment of the most prized and valued of salmon species – the […]
Zoom Zombie
The ‘accident’ just waiting to happen The highway as home studio If you have any questions about why American roads have become increasingly dangerous, let ESPN college football analyst Kirk Herbstreit and […]
Palin reloads
Takes 2nd shot at New York Times Long out of the national public spotlight, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is back in it as she heads to court in New York City […]
