As Alaska’s urban core speeds toward the end of an unusually warm and dry September, the Centers for Environmental Information are suggesting there is more of the same to come. “The temperature […]
Sun-tember
Wild values
As this is written, the author is sitting at a keyboard pretty well pounded by Alaska. Three and half hours of steady paddling from the seat of a packraft after a four-and-half-hour, […]
Bye, bye Sarah
Everyone in Alaska knew this was coming sooner or later didn’t they? Half-term former Gov. Sarah Palin has told a British newspaper she’s going to do the Gold Rush thing and take […]
Anti-Semites?
If there is any to truth to the Anchorage Daily News suggestion the Pioneers of Alaska – one of the 49th state’s sillier clubs – is a bunch of anti-Semites, the late […]
Gone fish
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 […]
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
