“We have met the enemy, and he is us!” Pogo, the lead character in a long-gone newspaper comic strip, observed on Earth Day, 1971. He was commenting on the environmental state of […]
Pogo had it right
The money fish
New economic data might make Alaskans want to think twice about cursing those fish-filled coolers soon to start passing through Ted Stevens International Airport in Anchorage. Tourists appear willing to pump a […]
Life with bruin
The bears have taken back the valley. The sign is everywhere, and it is more than the scat proliferating on neighborhood trails, the bear sightings shared by neighbors, and the bear cache […]
Alaska’s shrinking salmon
The season of the salmon in the waters surrounding Alaska’s urban core has opened with a warning that all might not be well in the North Pacific Ocean. Once again, as was […]
Trump(ed) in Alaska
As you read this, renegade Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is in the process of being contained in the north. And what is happening in Alaska is happening all across the country. […]
Technology is(not) our friend
News in Alaska was supposed to rocket into a new and better future on Wednesday when the Alaska Dispatch News launched its new news platform developed in cooperation with the Washington Post. […]
The real AK bites back
Commentary North of the Alaska Range mountains, global warming took a Tuesday setback in that snowy way that tends to make some people skeptical of climate change. Call this the normal variation […]
Another one bites the dust
UPDATED: This story was revised on May 17, 2016 to include a short bio of the new publisher of the Frontiersman. In a state where people sometimes seem increasingly intolerant of views […]
Do not inhale
Puffy, itchy eyes; sinus headaches and a general sense of malaise hit many in Alaska’s largest city on Saturday as the dark side of global warming showed its face in a spring […]
Global warming’s good side
The swallows and robins were beginning to nest in Anchorage, Alaska on Friday. The temperature hit 71 degrees, tying the all-time record high. And Friday May 13 appeared to be headed straight […]
