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 […]
Catch, release, kill fish
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 […]
When journalists make nice, lessons get lost
For want of a shovel, Alaskan Jenny Neyman — writer, editor and enterprising publisher behind the now sorely missed Redoubt Reporter newspaper — and friend Chris Hanna almost died entombed in snow […]
When AK bears attack
When a dog bites a man, as a Pulitzer Prize winner observed more than 100 years ago, it is not news. On average, almost 120,000 children between the ages of one and […]
Dirty little secrets
As you read this, the odds are good a woman is being beaten by her husband, fiance, boyfriend, partner or the like somewhere in the 49th state. A 2010 study by the […]
