Colder, warmer, drier, wetter…. Months ago, the super-duper quadruple, never-before-seen El Niño roaring east across the equatorial Pacific Ocean toward the Americas seemed almost certain to cause a […]
Climates collide
The new Alaska
The traditional, subsistence lifestyle in Alaska is now so far gone that it is hard to live it on an income of $155,000 per year, according to the Washington Post. No, I […]
Whose fish?
Alaska salmon management under fire A law-school student now clerking for an Alaska judge has penned the outline for a Constitutional challenge to the way Alaska has for decades managed its salmon […]
We’re back
Best of seasons Hugh here with a few words. Some of you noticed craigmedred.news went cold for a while, and I’m here to assure you, or irritate you, by reporting that the […]
Dangerous ‘friends’
And weekend executions A marauding family of Anchorage brown/grizzly bears with a yen for ripping apart locked garbage cans, raiding chicken coops, knocking down fences and causing other damage in […]
No Salvation
The great hatchery promise With Alaska on track to post its worst salmon harvest since 1979, it’s time to revisit the promise made to the state’s once taxpaying voters when they ponied […]
Dark politics
Fairy tales and blindness The great dream of ranked-choice voting in Alaska was that voters wouldn’t “need to worry about ‘spoilers,’ or feel forced to vote for the lesser of two evils.” […]
Bear with
The Big (too) Wild Life With the Chugach Mountain foothills above Anchorage averaging a bear mauling a month in this, the summer of 2026, some seem to be getting a little edgy […]
Alaska’s mafia
Has a new don wannabe What a way to end the week. No sooner had I finished a commentary on the ‘Big Lie’ propaganda suggesting that the 49 sockeye killed as trawl […]
The big lie
Outside help AK Dems don’t need What, in God’s name, are Democrats thinking in trying to tie Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, to trawler bycatch that has absolutely nothing to do with the […]
