The pedestrians are not the killers The mayor of Alaska’s largest wants to stiffen the so-called crime of “jaywalking” in the name of saving lives, and nobody seems to have asked […]
Pedestrian confusions
No salmon problems
Industrial-scale, ocean farming all good – state officials Only weeks after a Seattle biologist warned Canadians that salmon numbers in the North Pacific Ocean have reached the point where ocean-farmed fish threaten […]
The perpetrators
Who is responsible for pedestrian death record? With Anchorage having set a new record for killing pedestrians on its streets, and more than a few motorists happy to blame it on the […]
Frankenfish ‘culled’
Financial collapse kills AquaBounty salmon plans Score one for Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska. AquaBounty Technologies – the Massachusetts-based company that claimed to have found “a better way to feed the world” with […]
Frigid benefit
Shivering toward a healthier you If you were one of the thousands of overweight Alaskans, and there are many of us, left shivering in the cold and dark due to storm-caused power […]
Zero-sum fishery
Are wild salmon the ultimate loser? A news analysis Alaska salmon farmers who annually turn almost 2 billion hatchery fish loose to feed on the pastures of the North Pacific Ocean […]
Strangely law-abiding
Pedestrian killing driver charged in Anchorage Coeur d’Alene, Idaho – The strange part about walking around downtown in this very conservative Lower 48 city is that motorists actually seem to understand state […]
Trans-dicament
The righteous and unsolvable war over ‘fairness’ China is slowly but steadily gaining ground in its bid to become the world’s major economic power. The U.S. has given Ukraine long-range ballistic […]
What next
Already facing a tide of outmigration, Alaska today finds its largest city pegged among the top five of the “30 Worst Places to Live in the United States.” So much for the […]
Saving brains
Exercise runs down dementia risks From the world of exercise is medicine, now comes the suggestion that even some of those genetically predisposed to dementia may be able to out walk, out […]
