The roots of disaster Part 1 of a 4-part series Thirty-five years ago, Alaska politicians and the politically powerful commercial fishing interests that had long punched above their economic weight in the […]
AK Salmon 2025, modern history I
Moto Jihad
Why motorists hate cyclists On the bike on roads in an urban American far from Alaska, I finally discovered why some motorists so hate cyclists. Credit traffic “engineers” who’ve spent decades promoting […]
Nannyism
The costly U.S. safety lobby Alaskans might find this hard to believe, but the one of the latest of national dangers comes from people getting out of their cars, trucks and motorhomes […]
Into the dark
Cheer up, it’s worse elsewhere As Alaska starts down the tunnel toward the long season of the SAD dark, there comes this good news: Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is worse in 13 […]
Trawling 4 love
Troubled image of AK largest fishery Under fire for the incidental harvest of salmon, which some claim has devastated Chinook returns to the Kuskokwim and Yukon rivers despite any scientific evidence to […]
The Lifesaver
Better health is only steps away With U.S. life expectancies steadily falling behind those of other Western nations and the U.S. medical community suggesting expensive GLP-1 drugs and vaccines for everything as […]
More losses
AK salmon ranch business failing The Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association (CIAA) – the Weyerhaeuser of the Alaska salmon ranching scene – is poised to post huge financial losses again this year. A […]
Double tragedy
The cost of convenience The Anchorage Police Department has finally identified the hit-and-run driver behind the wheel of a Jeep Cherokee that killed 63-year-old Arthur Stepetin Jr. on Aug. 29. After weeks […]
Russia wins
Competition for cheap protein Russia looks to have once again beaten Alaska in the annual battle to produce the maximum volume of the lowest-value salmon in the Pacific Ocean, and this despite […]
Charlie Kirk
And the threat to reason For all of those on social media and elsewhere now offering their views on the vile things, true or untrue, that the late Charlie Kirk might or […]
