No one involved with the split between the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) and Alaska’s most profitable company – Arctic Slope Regional Corp. (ASRC) – is publicly saying much of anything of […]
Economic divisions
Impeachment gauge
The results are in, and they show what Americans really care about: the head-bashing business of professional football. “Sunday Night Football (on NBC) delivered 15.78 million viewers in the fast nationals […]
Infernal combustion
SOMEWHERE OVER THE NORTHWEST – From 35,000 feet above Washington state – or, God forbid, the same altitude above the U.S. East Coast or Europe or India for that matter – it […]
This sucks
Rains of near biblical proportions were falling on Southcoastal Alaska on Monday to wash away what is normally winter. Had bad was it? See the top-10 worst below. But first the news. […]
Unconsidered costs
Why is it that when Americans face-off in debates about transportation infrastructure they invariably end up arguing about the wrong thing? Motorists rant about holier-than-thou, scofflaw cyclists and inattentive pedestrians that can […]
Old-way killer
On the trail in the bright of an LED beam on Wednesday night, it dawned that the old ways in Alaska don’t just die. They are murdered by technology. On an individual […]
A dark horizon
If you’re an Alaska commercial salmon fishermen, be forewarned; the farmers in Wisconsin are coming for you. Dangers lurking in the future might be easy to overlook coming after another boom […]
Be happy
In this the holiday season in a United States heavy on fear, anger and acrimony, could there be a better time to look at the data on how far we have come […]
Idita-threat?
Where does the drive for performance end and torture begin? It could be the question of the month given the charges leveled against Nike by runner Mary Cain at the start of […]
Long gone
Stumbling around in the brush of wild Alaska in the bad light of an early November afternoon about to succumb to the blackness of the onrushing night, thoughts of 32-year-old German Thomas […]
