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, […]
Dog saved
Big trouble
Alaska-connected financier accused of swindle A one-time best bud of Alaskan Gabrielle “Ellie” Rubenstein, a member of the Permanent Fund Corporation’s board of directors up until last summer, now has a $145 […]
Iditarod lost
Last Great Race again abandons historic trail So now it has come down to this: 20 miles of bad trail is enough to send the event that bills itself as the “Last […]
Medical mysteries
The mind-body connection in Covid-19 The ability of placebos – or what have sometimes been called “dummy pills” – to trigger physiological responses that help people battle Covid-19 are now being reported […]
Faster, faster, faster
Death by design on U.S. roads With a record number of pedestrians dead in Anchorage last year, the state Department of Transportation has proposed a new, high-speed roadway through the heart of […]
Unseen disaster
The costs of social engineering salmon harvests Part II of II To begin to understand how Alaska has so devalued salmon – once one of the state’s most valuable resources – one […]
Unseen disaster
AK’s economic mismanagement of salmon Part I of II Sixty-six years ago, the political leaders of the newly formed state of Alaska banned fish traps for the harvest of salmon in the […]
Costly gamble
Plan to prop up AK commercial fishing Alaska’s Five-Year Plan for the Production of State Salmon is out with a scheme for the mother of all bailouts of the commercial salmon fishing […]
All doped up
Make America Healthy Again These now unUnited States of America have a drug problem, and it’s a lot bigger than the illicit chemicals that have cost the country more than $1 […]
The masquerade
Only in Alaska where black is white With fisheries scientists now describing expanding populations of pink salmon as ecosystem disrupters across nearly the whole of the Northern Hemisphere, it is time someone […]
