News analysis While the Alaska Department of Fish and Game was celebrating what it claims as another “record” season for commercial fishermen in remote Bristol Bay, a company rooted in Denmark was forging […]
Real world
Safer streets
BOISE, ID – On the day an Anchorage secondary student was knocked off his bike and killed at an Anchorage intersection, I was running stop signs and jumping through red lights in […]
Car problems
SEATTLE – When stuck in the often nightmarish, 2019 traffic of this Pacific Northwest city, it is hard to avoid wondering if U.S. federal highway vehicle emission standards didn’t actually help move […]
One easy fix
The climate kids are right. Adults aren’t providing very good role models in the war against global warming. Anchorage and all of Alaska could take the lead here to show them by […]
Farmers’ success
Today in the global fishing business: The two biggest, young stars in Alaska’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race hookup with a Norwegian sponsor which built its business on producing food for fish […]
Unofficially official
For the fourth time this decade – but only the eighth time in the 134-year history of Alaska commercial salmon harvests – the catch has topped 200 million. The Alaska Department of […]
Burn, burn, burn
A long way from a record, the Alaska fire season is winding down at last with the long-term consequences far from clear. The good news is no one died, although a number […]
Overlookment
For decades, a group of Canadian scientists have charged, fishery biologists on the West Coast have been fighting battles over habitat and dams ignoring the biggest issue facing salmon: ocean survival. Their […]
Gun talk
No public policy debate in the U.S. today involves more simple ignorance than the discussion of gun control, a fact presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke sadly underlined Thursday during the Democrat presidential debate. […]
Alaska’s bounty
For the fourth time this decade – but only the eighth time in the state’s 60-year history – Alaska is on the cusp of posting another salmon harvest at or above the […]
