Will fabled Kenai kings ever return? Before the waters of the North Pacific Ocean warmed and its population of pink salmon exploded, Alaska’s Kenai River was home to a run of giant […]
Gone kings
Dog down
Man killed in Anchorage crosswalk A dog strayed into Anchorage Midtown traffic early Tuesday and paid the price with its life. Fifty-three-year-old Evan Larson Jr. went to the dog and was hit […]
Cook Inlet’s Everwar
Apparently unaware of why the Alaska Boards of Fisheries and Game were created and clueless as to the biological significance of the commercial salmon fishery in Upper Cook Inlet, Rep. Sarah Vance, […]
What’s killing us
Foolish to be fat and proud of it Here, according to the latest research in the peer-reviewed New England Journal of Medicine, is what the Fat Acceptance/Body Positive movement is helping to […]
Road kill 3
The enablers Part 3 of a three-part series As if road deaths in U.S. could be made funny, artist Woodrow Phoenix once sketched a comic book titled “Crash Course: If You Want […]
Road kill 2
Me, me, me killers Part 2 of a three-part series With tens of thousands of people dying on American roads every year, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety in 2023 polled drivers […]
Road kill 1
The human costs Part 1 of a three-part series Every 24 days and 8 hours in these unUnited States as many people die on the roadways as were killed in the 9/11 […]
PETA is winning
The Iditarod fades to its 1973 size As diehard fans of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race celebrate the victory of an out-of-work reality TV star with a documented history of disrespect […]
Iditarod downer
Feel good story torpedoed While reality TV star Jessie “Moose Killer” Holmes and his wolf pack were charging toward a first Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race victory on Wednesday, race organizers were […]
Dog saved
Iditarod PR badly, badly botched The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, an event that claims to be “all about the dogs,” this week disqualified a musher who was all about the dogs, […]
