Stop the COVID-19 madness. Just stop the friggin’ COVID-19 madness. SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes this disease, is a nasty little pathogen, and everyone should take it seriously. But encouraging a moral […]
Pushing fear
Bankruptcy pays
Stiffed on a $119 pair of boots by millionaire Alice Rogoff in 2017 – the former owner and publisher of what is today the Anchorage Daily News (ADN.com) – the proprietor of […]
Maj. Major
The Anchorage Police Department’s sometimes apparently fictitious Facebook feature – What Not To Do Wednesday (WNTDW) – has been shut down apparently due to the efforts of a woman who works for […]
Dangerous air
News analysis A year into the deadliest pandemic of the Digital Age, the U.S. government is finally being pressured to accept what has appeared obvious for a long time: SARS-CoV-2, the virus […]
Back to the future?
For generations now, oil has been the lifeblood of Alaska. It has powered the 49th state economy, filled state tax coffers with dollars, and helped support many non-profit organizations. It has been […]
Dogged COVID risk
What if many of the actions we have been taking to avoid contracting COVID-19 have been misinformed and some real risks ignored? A scientifically peer-reviewed study out of Spain, published in the […]
Unleashed
UPDATE Feb. 17, 2021 The Municipality of Anchorage has now answered the request to review its records, as stipuled by state law, to try to determine where, if, and to what […]
Clickbaiting
Alaska’s largest newspaper is once again pushing – knowingly or unknowingly – the economic nonsense pitched by a mouthpiece for the state’s commercial fishing industry. “One Alaska king salmon is worth the […]
New world order
As commercial fishermen in Alaska’s Cook Inlet continue to beat the dead horse of “maximum sustained yield (MSY),” the world of seafood is evolving at the speed of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. China’s […]
Trail’s end
A soft-spoken, rail-thin Anchorage musician and author once Alaska famous as one of the hardest of hard men on the Iditarod Trail is dead at the age of 66. Shawn Lyons for […]
