The enablers Part 3 of a three-part series As if road deaths in U.S. could be made funny, artist Woodrow Phoenix once sketched a comic book titled “Crash Course: If You Want […]
Road kill 3
The vulnerable (II)
Part II The deaths of the disregarded Below are the strangest phenomena surrounding the steady increase in the unnecessary deaths of vulnerable road users in the United States today: The lack […]
The good news
In the overall scheme of life, Alaska came through the first wave of the global pandemic basically untouched, according to a June summary from the state Division of Public Health. The agency’s […]
A testing headache
Sometimes doing the right thing is not easy as Bub Nelson learned when he finally made it back to Alaska in this the year of COVID-19. After Gov. Mike Dunleavy announced near […]
Toughest Iditarod
Far from the bright lights of civilization, the fat-tired cyclists at the front of the Iditarod Trail Invitational’s human-powered race to McGrath and beyond were Tuesday slogging their way toward Rainy Pass […]
Cash cows
Almost 3 million people visited Alaska’s national parks and preserves last year, and if a new study out from the National Park Service can be believed, they were worth $678.02 per head […]
