News analysis For the Alaska fishing industry, the second largest employer in the 49th state, the coronavirus pandemic shutting down the country brings good news, bad news and hints of an even […]
Floundering
Double speak
Alaska’s largest newspaper is again downsizing, but it is understandable if you missed this news. The email to ADN.com viewers from editor David Hulen required fluency in Orwellian doublespeak. One could easily […]
White spring
A bright sun was smiling on Alaska’s largest snow-covered and frozen city on Sunday as the temperature climbed to 29 degrees – nine degrees below normal for the day. Welcome to an […]
Good bad-news
Grim but in these times encouraging news is coming out of the University of Washington (UW) where a respected scientist has modeled a national death toll of 81,114 people from the COVID-19 […]
Iditarod future
DENVER – With another Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race done, more Iditarod sponsors departed, and another yuge Iditaord money-making idea gone bust, it’s time to talk about what ails Alaska’s Last Great […]
Nocebo COVID-O
Are you feeling a little ill? Have you feared your sense of smell or taste diminishing? Did you go online to look at the list of COVID-19 symptoms and start to thinking, […]
An economic plague
As the day’s lengthen in the north and Alaska warms toward another season of salmon bounty, the problems stalking the state’s commercial fishing industry seem to be ever growing. Even before […]
Living in fear
As we hunker down in fear before a microscopic pathogen we cannot see, I am not ashamed to admit to being afraid. But it is not the coronavirus COVID-19 that scares […]
Mean mother
With more dog mushers needing rescue on Friday and some competitors in the muscle-powered Iditarod Trail Invitational (ITI) pulled off the route, 2020 will go down as the year Mother Nature bit […]
Mountain closed
Two months before the serious start to the mountaineering season in the Alaska Range mountains, the National Park Service has decided Covid-19 is more dangerous than climbing North America’s tallest mountain. The […]
