About 2.8 million people per year die in the United States from heart disease, cancer, injuries and various other illnesses, according to the data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control […]
Trump’s gasline
President Donald Trump may do more to make an Alaska gasline a reality than Gov. Bill Walker could ever have dreamed if a columnist for the website Seeking Alpha is to be […]
Hope’s importance
The powerful and yet subtle ways in which work influences lives is writ large in the new look some economists are taking at the dip in U.S. life expectancy. University of California, […]
Who changed America?
Love her or detest her, maybe it’s time give former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin her due as a figure who changed American history. There is simply no denying her role in creating […]
Frankenfish arrive
With a pitch for salmon “free of antibiotics and ocean contaminants,” AquaBounty Technologies has announced it is soon to harvest for sale in the U.S. the first of its genetically engineered “Frankenfish,” […]
COVID guilt
Near 2,000 feet in the Front Range Chugach Mountains on Monday, halfway through a two-hour skijor in a White-Christmasesque snowfall, it hit me that the year of the pandemic has been one […]
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 […]
Tokyo goes; LNG woes
Scratch Tokyo Gas as one of the candidates for the purchase of Alaska North Slope LNG. A variety of sources are reporting the company, a major Japanese importer of liquified natural […]
Vacant and broke
Before a microscopic coronavirus that has come to be called COVID-19 shifted the entire world order, Alaska’s remote and little peopled Denali Borough had a pretty good thing going. Now it’s […]
Back to the future?
For generations now, oil has been the lifeblood of Alaska. It has powered the 49th state economy, filled state tax coffers with dollars, and helped support many non-profit organizations. It has been […]