The last of four parts: Battle lines, battle plans From deck of Resolution Park on the edge of the water near the heart of Alaska’s largest city, one can look south down […]
Alaska’s Greatest Gift, Pt. 4
Alaska’s greatest gift, Pt. 3
Part three of four: Carving up the pie To hear Cook Inlet commercial fishermen tell it, any “extra” salmon that escape their nets to spawn in Alaska rivers are not just their […]
Alaska’s greatest gift, Pt. 2
This is part two of a four part series: the fall and rise of Alaska fisheries. For those who came of age or arrived in Alaska after the start of the new […]
Alaska’s greatest gift, Pt. 1
This is the first part of a four part series : Fishing, a very special business. Forty-four years ago, average Alaskans voted one of the state’s most powerful special interest groups a […]
10 ways to end “bus”madness
Enough with the bus. Yeah, you know what bus. Alaska State Troopers had to buzz in with a helicopter and rescue another Chris McCandless-bus worshipper on Thursday. This time it was some […]
Totally flummoxed
News commentary Journalism has a lot in common with intelligence gathering. Journalists take bits and pieces of information of which they never have enough and try to construct from that a narrative […]
Alaska casino coming soon?
Update: The Tlingit-Haida Central Council has issued a statement saying it has an approved, federal gaming ordinance, but denying it has any plan to build a casino in Juneau at this time. […]
The invisible voting booth
Add what appears to be at least one illegal polling place to the list of irregularities surrounding the rural Alaska vote in the 49th state’s 2016 primary election. KTOO.org, the wesbsite for […]
The missing in Alaska
A GoFundMe account has been opened for the family of Texan Brad Broach, who has joined the missing in Alaska. Three weeks ago, the 46-year-married father of three walked away from the […]
Global gas blues
With the administration of Gov. Bill Walker pushing full-speed ahead for an Alaska natural gas pipeline and the full-on export of liquified natural gas (LNG) from the Kenai Peninsula, it might be […]
