The fading significance of Alaska’s legacy media is broken down by the numbers in the September issue of the state Department of Labor’s Alaska Economic Trends, and the picture isn’t pretty. An […]
Old media twilight?
Killing season
TWENTYMILE RIVER – The dogs that have come and painfully gone return in memory every year at this time, but the memories are good. We never knew a day afield that was […]
Warming winner
The Alaska Arctic appears to be home to global-warming winner familiar to almost everyone in the 49th state: pink salmon. Impossible to miss for those fishing in the “Top of the World” […]
Fear
TWENTYMILE RIVER – Fear lives, sometimes inexplicably, in the human mind. Dropping down the overgrown trail from Berry Pass at the top of Winner Creek over the weekend, the discussion turned to […]
Shitty story
Scientists working on an archeological dig in Oregon contend they’ve found the fat in the crap of the ancients, and it shows humans were roaming North America before those now known as […]
The humpy swarm
As Alaska putters toward what looks to be its worst commercial salmon season in almost 40 years – despite another banner season for sockeye in Bristol Bay – Cook Inlet streams […]
Collecting cash
While U.S. House Democrats were in April of this year lobbying to have labor unions officially listed as entities qualifying for funds from the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) intended to provide […]
How we die
Before COVID-19 changed the world as we knew it six months back, a man named Tom Rach – most likely unknown to anyone reading this – was preparing to attend his 50th […]
Goin’ crazy
Few know better the dangers of enforced isolation than old-time Alaskans. Tales of “cabin fever” among those locked into the wilderness by the onset of winter are the stuff of legend in […]
Deprivation diet?
Alaska’s decades-long bonanza of pink salmon has now been fingered as one of the likely suspects in a roller-coaster decline in size of four other species of Pacific salmon. After examining a […]
