UPDATE Feb. 17, 2021 The Municipality of Anchorage has now answered the request to review its records, as stipuled by state law, to try to determine where, if, and to what […]
Unleashed
Clickbaiting
Alaska’s largest newspaper is once again pushing – knowingly or unknowingly – the economic nonsense pitched by a mouthpiece for the state’s commercial fishing industry. “One Alaska king salmon is worth the […]
New world order
As commercial fishermen in Alaska’s Cook Inlet continue to beat the dead horse of “maximum sustained yield (MSY),” the world of seafood is evolving at the speed of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. China’s […]
Trail’s end
A soft-spoken, rail-thin Anchorage musician and author once Alaska famous as one of the hardest of hard men on the Iditarod Trail is dead at the age of 66. Shawn Lyons for […]
Killer chute
The three men killed in a Tuesday avalanche just north of Alaska’s largest city appear to have been driven more than 1,500 feet down a steep couloir by a shallow layer of […]
Deadly terrain
On Monday, Matt Tunseth, an out-of-work journalist in Anchorage, posted on his Facebook page a photograph of avalanche rubble on the flanks of the city’s most climbed mountain with a warning to […]
Going polar
Tens of thousands of feet above the Arctic, the earth’s stratosphere has gone nuts, and the results are being widely felt. Heavy snows buried the Midwest and Great Lakes regions over the […]
PR reordered
ExxonMobil’s departure as a sponsor of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race this week might have come as a surprise to some fans of the self-identified Last Great Race, but it […]
Confusion
One of President Joe Biden’s first acts in office on Wednesday was to order masks on “all persons in federal buildings or on federal lands.” Federal officials in Alaska were Thursday […]
Knuckleball weather
Siberia was colder than hell to start the week. Rain was falling in Anchorage, heavily at times, on Monday. And Judah Cohen, the guru of the polar vortex, says it all makes […]
