The aura that once surrounded Sarah Palin, the most famous of Alaska polebrities, is now officially dead, and that of former President Donald Trump appears to be fading for the same reason […]
War & peace
Dangerous words
The news these days is so bad it could make you sick. Or so say researchers from Texas Tech University who studied what is being called “problematic news consumption.” “It has been […]
Armed and safer
News analysis A national survey of American gun owners conducted by a business professor at liberal Georgetown University is suggesting that the oft-repeated conclusion that a firearm makes your home more dangerous […]
Heroes and villains
Lance Mackey, the four-time winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race who lived his life fast and loose and broke rules both written and unwritten, is dead at the age of […]
Battle dress
“The Salmon Sisters” – an entrepreneurial pair of young women from Homer, Alaska – added a tailored version of a kangaroo-pocketed pullover or shift or what the rafting company NRS calls a […]
Fear’s baggage
Could the media-driven fear of the SARS-CoV-2 virus now be making the disease worse? The question is hard to avoid in the wake of some of the findings coming out of studies […]
Dousing the fire
UPDATE: Flooding from this drenched has closed a number of road in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough: https://ready.matsugov.us/pages/flooding The rain was falling heavily again in Alaska’s largest city on Monday morning, and a […]
The downtrodden
SMITHERS, B.C., Canada – Life ain’t fair. Driving through Canada listening to the CBC, that nation’s public radio network, you get an ear full of just how unfair. The stories of those […]
The disinformation war
“The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should […]
Killing science
When the history of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is written years from now, one of the most notable consequences might prove to be the damage done to science by scientists or those who […]
