A new Anchorage record Drivers of motor vehicles killed four pedestrians on Anchorage roads in five days last week and few residents of Alaska’s largest city paid it much attention. Imagine […]
Road kill
Welfare time?
Countdown to a disaster request begins The commercial season for pink salmon is done in Prince William Sound with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game reporting a harvest of barely […]
Self-inflicted deaths
The troubling U.S. death rate Americans are dying at a record rate compared to residents of other Western nations, and the U.S. medical establishment can’t seem to figure out why. JAMA […]
Salmon disaster
Hatchery failures lead the way With the commercial salmon season in the far north drawing to a close, Alaska is today on track to post the lowest, all-species harvest of the […]
Four deadly seconds
Driver explains death of well-known Fairbanks cyclist The driver who killed 48-year-old Fairbanks cyclist Matt Glover on the Richardson Highway in October 2022 is now telling his version of what happened. […]
Predictable crash
The up-down cycle of AK salmon Alaska’s ironic commercial salmon fishing business appears to be inching ever closer to a replay of the great crash of 2020. The catch that year […]
E-visions
Do electric motors truly make everything better? The first great pandemic of the 21st Century is now winding down with nearly 1.2 million Americans reported dead, the vast majority of them […]
Retirement wasteland?
Alaska rated worst for old folk The website Bankrate has a disturbing message for Alaskans thinking about retirement, and it might most easily be summed this way: Get your money and get […]
Covid everywhere
The real threat is the next new virus Almost everyone reading this – if not everyone – has by now been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Most got sick to lesser or […]
Disaster brewing
“The Karluk River Chinook salmon escapement through July 25 is 66 fish which is the lowest on record.” “The Ayakulik River Chinook salmon escapement through July 25 is 327 fish, which is […]
