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 […]
No Salvation
Alaska’s finest
The epitome of the ‘Big, Wild Life’ The legendary Dick Griffith, a man who inspired a generation of Alaska adventurers, has gone off on that last grand adventure that awaits us all. […]
Coop bears
The problem with tasty chickens With a chicken-fancying grizzly bear sow and her cubs still roaming upscale Hillside neighborhoods above Alaska’s largest city, there is an increasing social-media call for the Alaska […]
A bad look
Anchorage has become an unmentionable The data-crunching website Wallet Hub is out with its list of “Best Summer Travel Destinations (2025)” and guess what, the 76th largest city in the country […]
Agenda blinded
Why reporting is now so lame The truly sad thing about American journalism these days is the agenda-driven, narrow-mindedness that prevents reporters from seeing and reporting the complexities and the ironies of […]
Blue state red
Traffic – America’s common denominator OLYMPIA, Wash – The flood of Interstate 5 traffic that thunders past the capitol of “The Evergreen State” day and night nicely underlines the July warning from […]
Crash of ’24
Another big bust in the Pacific salmon fisheries For the second time in four years, a huge decline in North Pacific salmon numbers is being reported in the wake of a big […]
Best worst times
Or worst best times? No matter what a train wreck legacy media have become in these times, the early 21st century has to be summed as the best of times and the […]
Losers vs winners
King salmon going down as pinks go up An eight- to nine-fold increase in Prince William Sound pink salmon now credited to the open-ocean farming of the North Pacific Ocean has […]
Bailouts
Another bandaid on a gushing wound The Alaska Congressional delegation is singing praises for a new $100 million bailout of the state’s floundering commercial salmon processing business. In a joint statement […]
