What killing a bruin has to do with getting things done for your state in the U.S. Senate is hard to say, but candidate Dr. Al Gross is campaigning as “Bear Doctor” […]
Bear doctoring
Stranger than fiction
Only in Alaska can reality prove stranger than reality TV, and when the two converge, the outcome is near unbelievable. Consider the case of 78-year-old Duane Ose who off and on […]
Second bear victim
This story is an edited version of the original. It was updated on Sept. 25, 2020 to reflect corrected information about what bear attack victim Austin Pfieiffer was doing at the […]
Marginal gains
We have to do better. Yes, yes, we do. Whatever it is, we have to do better. COVID-19, race relations, socioeconomic inequities, the war on drugs, climate change, media accuracy, our […]
Getting played
New analysis The supposedly objective evidence an Anchorage Daily News-ProPublica story posits as proof that the late Alaska Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott traumatized the former director of law enforcement for the […]
True stories
Two years on from the story Alaska’s legacy media largely ignored, the state’s largest news organization is claiming it has the true story on what led to the downfall of Lt. Gov. […]
Protect yourself
Evermore the evidence builds that the way to protect yourself from the potentially deadly SARS-CoV-2 virus stalking the planet is to stay as far away as possible from other people, any […]
Off the cliff
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 […]
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 […]
Deprivation diet?
Alaska’s decades-long bonanza of pink salmon has now been fingered as one of the likely suspects in a roller-coaster decline in size of four other species of Pacific salmon. After examining a […]
