News as propaganda kills trust Sometimes it is hard to tell whether scientists or journalists are most responsible for the pervasive global warming skepticism in the world’s largest and most powerful […]
The know-it-all problem
Wet and wetter
This is global warming After the winter of much snow has come the summer of much rain to dampen the spirits of the more than half of all Alaskans who live in […]
Everyday danger
Lack of consequences = dangerous roads The question of the moment is simple: “Who killed Carlton Higgins?” The Anchorage Police Department (APD) knows, but it won’t say. Why? Because APD is […]
The final frontier
Billions for old when new appears cheaper Residents of remote villages in rural Alaska are singing the praises of Starlink – a SpaceX satellite array that beams the internet to anywhere on […]
(S)he is us
Alaskans crowd popular recreation sites Stealing a page from the playbook of radio-tracking wildlife biologists, the Alaska Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation four years ago began tracking people roaming the […]
Flailing policy
Where Anchorage bike policy went wrong With the Anchorage Assembly patting itself on the back for supposedly making Alaska’s largest city safer and friendlier for so-called “vulnerable road users,” […]
Dogged problem
Call for Anchorage leash law rising again Summer has come to Alaska’s largest city; local trails are busy with Anchoragites; and dogs are once again rivaling the now Portlandesque problem of the […]
Safe space
An economic opportunity for Alaska If Americans fearful of climate change are now truly fleeing the warm states for places like Duluth, Minn., as national and international media are reporting, Anchorage […]
Iditarod rising
Two women made famous the ‘Last Great Race’ Part II of III Any history of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Races is most accurately recorded in the years BR and AR – […]
Changing times
A withering Iditarod faces an unknown future Part one of a series Forty years ago, a young Athabascan dog driver named Howard Albert from the village of Ruby on the Yukon River […]
