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 […]
Zero-sum fishery
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 […]
War on cars
We have met the enemy; he is us Electric-powered cars and trucks are not the clean-world panacea many Americans thought they were, researchers for the National Bureau of Economic Research have […]
Flailing fish biz
Consequences of Soviet-style economics For the 64 years since Alaska Statehood, commercial fishermen and salmon processors have dictated the management of salmon in this 49th state, and this is where the business […]
Dead bear day
Joyous “Fat Bear Week” turns ugly As was inevitable, Fat Bear Week – the National Park Service’s promotional effort to portray the brown/grizzly bears of Katmai National Park as big, cuddly, lovable […]
Trafficking
America’s biggest public health problem The U.S. Union of Concerned Scientists is out with a new report highlighting the costs of the country’s addiction to motor vehicles, but it misses one of […]
