An old northland joke describes an Alaska sourdough as someone who has gone sour on the country but lacks the dough to pay for passage to friendlier environments to the south. And […]
Sour sourdoughs
Budget woes
As the Alaska state House and Senate prepare to sit down to reconcile budgets that take a blood-sucking mosquito bite out of state spending but nonetheless continue the dangerous and eventually doomed […]
Attack chief
A man identifying himself as “the chief of staff for Rep. Ivy Sponholz,” D-Anchorage, today eliminated another former employee of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game from the pool of […]
A new twist
Almost a week after Alaska Rep. Ivy Spohnholz, D-Anchorage, accused a retired Anchorage Superior Court judge of sexual harassment in a successful effort to sink his appointment to the state Board of […]
Judge judged
Two more women who worked closely with retired Anchorage Superior Court Judge Karl Johnstone when he served on the Alaska Board of Fisheries prior to 2015 say they saw no sign of […]
Tangled nets
The day after the Alaska Legislature blocked the confirmation of a Board of Fisheries (BOF) appointee amid allegations he sexually harassed multiple employees of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, the […]
Now it’s halibut
First the farmers came after the wild salmon. Now they’re coming after the wild halibut. A campaign by Direct Seafoods urging chefs to replace wild halibut with farmed halibut on restaurant […]
Fatal rumors
In a historic and unprecedented move, the Alaska Legislature Wednesday night vetoed a gubernatorial appointment on the basis of a #metoo rumor. The vote came after Rep. Ivy Sponholz, […]
Limits of science
The nature of human kind is that the more we learn the less we know. Once we knew the earth was flat, and we were wrong. Once we knew the universe […]
What truth?
In these post-truth times, it is interesting to ponder what would happen if these tenuously United States managed to create a society wherein truth wholly ceased to matter. What would be shape […]
