The high temperature in Alaska’s largest city hit 22 degrees on Sunday – 13 degrees below normal and 26 degrees below the record temperature set in 1998, according to National Weather Service […]
Old cold
Stayin’ alive
On a day-to-day basis in Alaska, human survival sometimes still comes down to three basic factors that trace their roots back to the species’ prehistory: situational awareness, judgment and tools. About all […]
3rd wave coming?
On the other side of the world, a masked-up Italy is locking down again in the face of a March 2021 wave of COVID-19 infections looking like the deadly wave of 2020 […]
COVID guilt
Near 2,000 feet in the Front Range Chugach Mountains on Monday, halfway through a two-hour skijor in a White-Christmasesque snowfall, it hit me that the year of the pandemic has been one […]
A blue future
News analysis The “window” that former Alaska Gov. Bill Walker and his half-million-dollar Texas sidekick spent years suggesting had opened for an Alaska natural gas pipeline never did, and now it’s […]
Iditarod, take two
If Alaska’s largest newspaper is to be believed, you can now add the so-called “Last Great Race” to the filmed events of which you must ask “is it real or is it […]
Good-bye Gold Loop
The “Gold Loop Trail” especially planned for the pandemic-plagued Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race of 2021 is no more thanks to another body blow from Mother Nature. Iditarod Race Marshall Mark Nordman […]
Burn, burn, burn
Fat-tired cyclists on the Iditarod Trail in what was once the Farewell Burn/Craig Medred photo The grueling Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, “a brutal test of tenacity and stamina,” is off this […]
3 layers better
In the wake of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) proclaiming two masks better than one for halting the spread of the sometimes deadly SARS-CoV-2 virus, it only […]
Serious accusations
The story behind the story of the presumed death of former Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) CEO Andy Teuber now in the news is looking more and more like the plot […]
