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 […]
Beautiful & deadly
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 […]
Objectification
Don’t retreat; torch a Tesla Pity the poor Tesla owner living in these increasingly crazy unUnited States. One day, the driver is a proud, holier-than-thou greenie speeding along in a pricey electric […]
Cook Inlet’s Everwar
Apparently unaware of why the Alaska Boards of Fisheries and Game were created and clueless as to the biological significance of the commercial salmon fishery in Upper Cook Inlet, Rep. Sarah Vance, […]
PETA is winning
The Iditarod fades to its 1973 size As diehard fans of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race celebrate the victory of an out-of-work reality TV star with a documented history of disrespect […]
