The man who survived the bear obsession In an illustration of how fleeting fame in these days of internet immediacy, bear man Charles E. “Charlie” Vandergaw died almost unnoticed in Anchorage last […]
Goodby Charlie
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Thoughts of Alice
Clean or filthy rich? News that Joe Sanberg – he of the slogan proclaiming “Clean Rich is the New Filthy Rich” – is now caught up in a scandal swirling around “green investor” […]
Fat and dead
Expediting the U.S. trip to the grave On the day a “sweeping new paper” put America’s crisis of corpulence in the headlines across the country, I was reporting on the record number […]
Flailing fish biz
Consequences of Soviet-style economics For the 64 years since Alaska Statehood, commercial fishermen and salmon processors have dictated the management of salmon in this 49th state, and this is where the business […]
True traffic facts
Examining Anchorage’s Deadly Streets After a day spent perusing social media views on the record number of pedestrians being run down and killed by motor vehicles in Alaska’s largest city this year, […]
A century worst
Salmon catch could have 1970s value Update: The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is now reporting that higher prices and a larger than expected return of sockeye salmon to Bristol Bay […]
Newsonomics
Struggling ADN now faces an employee revolt Older Alaskans will remember the days when you could drop a quarter or two in one of the news boxes scattered around Alaska’s largest city […]
