Studies offer cheap, easy prescription Want to live better and significantly increase your chances of living longer? No problem. Get up off your ass and move at every opportunity. Researchers from Australia […]
Pedestrian confusions
The pedestrians are not the killers The mayor of Alaska’s largest wants to stiffen the so-called crime of “jaywalking” in the name of saving lives, and nobody seems to have asked […]
No salmon problems
Industrial-scale, ocean farming all good – state officials Only weeks after a Seattle biologist warned Canadians that salmon numbers in the North Pacific Ocean have reached the point where ocean-farmed fish threaten […]
The perpetrators
Who is responsible for pedestrian death record? With Anchorage having set a new record for killing pedestrians on its streets, and more than a few motorists happy to blame it on the […]
Zero-sum fishery
Are wild salmon the ultimate loser? A news analysis Alaska salmon farmers who annually turn almost 2 billion hatchery fish loose to feed on the pastures of the North Pacific Ocean […]
Strangely law-abiding
Pedestrian killing driver charged in Anchorage Coeur d’Alene, Idaho – The strange part about walking around downtown in this very conservative Lower 48 city is that motorists actually seem to understand state […]
Trans-dicament
The righteous and unsolvable war over ‘fairness’ China is slowly but steadily gaining ground in its bid to become the world’s major economic power. The U.S. has given Ukraine long-range ballistic […]
Bad to worse
Worst salmon season in 20 years The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has finally released its summary of the 2024 commercial salmon fishing season in the 49th state, and the only […]
Fat and dead
Expediting the U.S. trip to the grave On the day a “sweeping new paper” put America’s crisis of corpulence in the headlines across the country, I was reporting on the record number […]
What is ‘true’?
The horribly gray state of misinformation A Harvard University survey of 150 of the country’s top experts on “misinformation” provides a wonderful illustration of why American journalism should have avoided the quagmire […]
