The invisible, pandemic coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has gone after the three-legged stool of Alaska’s private sector economy like a big, angry beaver, according to the Alaska Department of Labor. Jobs in the oil […]
Off the cliff
Future COVID
Update: This story was edited on Sept. 7, 2020 to reflect Chinese findings of T-cell immunity for SARS-CoV-2. With COVID-19 cases at over 27 million and some residents of most of […]
Old media twilight?
The fading significance of Alaska’s legacy media is broken down by the numbers in the September issue of the state Department of Labor’s Alaska Economic Trends, and the picture isn’t pretty. An […]
Killing season
TWENTYMILE RIVER – The dogs that have come and painfully gone return in memory every year at this time, but the memories are good. We never knew a day afield that was […]
Warming winner
The Alaska Arctic appears to be home to global-warming winner familiar to almost everyone in the 49th state: pink salmon. Impossible to miss for those fishing in the “Top of the World” […]
Fear
TWENTYMILE RIVER – Fear lives, sometimes inexplicably, in the human mind. Dropping down the overgrown trail from Berry Pass at the top of Winner Creek over the weekend, the discussion turned to […]
Shitty story
Scientists working on an archeological dig in Oregon contend they’ve found the fat in the crap of the ancients, and it shows humans were roaming North America before those now known as […]
The humpy swarm
As Alaska putters toward what looks to be its worst commercial salmon season in almost 40 years – despite another banner season for sockeye in Bristol Bay – Cook Inlet streams […]
Collecting cash
While U.S. House Democrats were in April of this year lobbying to have labor unions officially listed as entities qualifying for funds from the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) intended to provide […]
How we die
Before COVID-19 changed the world as we knew it six months back, a man named Tom Rach – most likely unknown to anyone reading this – was preparing to attend his 50th […]
