News analysis On the 40th anniversary of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS), it might be time to consider the full implications of a study documenting huge increases in the lifespans of northern […]
Oil’s upside
Copper River disaster
This is a developing story No one seems to have any idea what sort of astronomical price a rare and iconic Copper River king salmon from Alaska might demand when the commercial […]
Good news Alaska
Rural Alaska might be plagued by economic woes and high suicide rates, but there is good news coming out of a national study on life expectancy published Monday in the Journal of the […]
Beary dangerous
Almost on cue with serious thoughts as to the dangers of mountain biking in Alaska, the sharp hoof of a young, bull moose missed Lar’s head by a mere couple […]
False narratives
Scientists Fredrik Jutfelt and Josefin Sundin, discovered the hard way the power of the false narrative. False narratives once established have a bad habit of taking on a life of their own. […]
Slap talks
Alaska Sen. David Wilson says he has met with the reporter he allegedly slapped earlier this week, and they have patched things up. After the Thursday meeting in his Juneau office, Wilson […]
The slap
Commentary As a working journalist, it’s hard to avoid feeling sorry for Alaska Dispatch News reporter Nat Herz, and the box into which he has now fallen. Herz is the reporter who […]
Capital bubbles
Commentary The gridlocked Alaska Legislature has a problem, but it’s not what most Alaskans think, although then again in a way it is sort of what most Alaskans think. The Legislature’s problem […]
Hatchery plan stalls
A Homer, Alaska area salmon hatchery caught operating without a federal Clean Water Act permit won’t be moving its operations to Kachemak Bay anytime soon. The private, non-profit Cook Inlet Aquaculture […]
Journalism in decay
The race to the bottom appears to be over. CareerCast.com, a website that ranks jobs in the U.S., now puts journalism at the bottom of the list of worst jobs […]
