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 […]
Frigid benefit
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 […]
Bad to worse
Worst salmon season in 20 years The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has finally released its summary of the 2024 commercial salmon fishing season in the 49th state, and the only […]
Fat and dead
Expediting the U.S. trip to the grave On the day a “sweeping new paper” put America’s crisis of corpulence in the headlines across the country, I was reporting on the record number […]
Cost of convenience
To speed us on our way, we kill people In a month when the deaths of vulnerable road users are normally in decline in Alaska’s largest city, a motor vehicle has struck […]
What is ‘true’?
The horribly gray state of misinformation A Harvard University survey of 150 of the country’s top experts on “misinformation” provides a wonderful illustration of why American journalism should have avoided the quagmire […]
