As the Alaska summer winds to a close, a hunt is on for the missing sockeye salmon of the 49th state’s fabled Copper River. It might be the perfect ending to the […]
Gone fish
Bear spray fail?
The inevitable has happened in Wyoming where a hunting guide who doused an attacking grizzly bear with pepper spray is dead. It is impossible, however, to say definitively that the bear spray […]
Fees for Chinese
Looking to join the Alaska fatbike craze? Buy quick. A billion dollars worth of bikes and bike components are the latest of made-in-China goods to be hit by Trump tariffs, and some […]
It’s the economy
Economists are forecasting Alaska could finally break out of its recession next year or may already have done so, but that doesn’t mean the economic future for the 49th state looks all that […]
Suffering lettuce?
An international team of scientists has discovered that plants have feelings, too. When insects nibble on the leaf of a rockcress plant, the group led by Masatsugu Toyot of Japan’s Saitama University […]
More journo-cide
Journalism’s effort to devalue journalism continues
Seeing trail dog
Archdeacon Hudson Stuck, the man who organized the first successful ascent of North America’s tallest mountain in 1913, once observed that the best thing one man can give another in Alaska is […]
State of stagnation
Famous as the state of economic boom and bust, Alaska appears to have reached something of a new, no-growth stability as its population ages in place, and its economy begins to diversify […]
Journo-icide
NEWPORT, Ore. – All across America these days, the day-to-day decay of the mainstream media is on display. The big problem is not the oft-cited bias, though there is plenty of that […]
“The Blab”-ber
News analysis Alaska is going to end the 2018 salmon season with a catch a little over half that of last year despite another phenomenal return of Bristol Bay sockeye salmon. But […]
