Already facing a tide of outmigration, Alaska today finds its largest city pegged among the top five of the “30 Worst Places to Live in the United States.” So much for the […]
What next
Bad to worse
Worst salmon season in 20 years The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has finally released its summary of the 2024 commercial salmon fishing season in the 49th state, and the only […]
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 […]
Cost of convenience
To speed us on our way, we kill people In a month when the deaths of vulnerable road users are normally in decline in Alaska’s largest city, a motor vehicle has struck […]
Big trouble
Salmon processors too poor to pay sick leave Once the economic engine of the Alaska Territory, the commercial fishing industry in the 49th state is now in such dire straits that it […]
Crash of ’24
Another big bust in the Pacific salmon fisheries For the second time in four years, a huge decline in North Pacific salmon numbers is being reported in the wake of a big […]
War on cars
We have met the enemy; he is us Electric-powered cars and trucks are not the clean-world panacea many Americans thought they were, researchers for the National Bureau of Economic Research have […]
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 […]
A pink flood
Hatchery tax to fund study of ocean takeover? In what might be one of the bluntest, to-the-point abstracts every to top a fisheries science paper, a pair of Canadian scientists and a […]
Dead bear day
Joyous “Fat Bear Week” turns ugly As was inevitable, Fat Bear Week – the National Park Service’s promotional effort to portray the brown/grizzly bears of Katmai National Park as big, cuddly, lovable […]
