Lance Mackey, the four-time winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race who lived his life fast and loose and broke rules both written and unwritten, is dead at the age of […]
Heroes and villains
How fear dies
A year ago in Alaska, the state was averaging two to 15 cases of COVID-19 per week, according to the Worldometer tracker, and many Alaskans were starting to panic over the […]
Pushing fear
Stop the COVID-19 madness. Just stop the friggin’ COVID-19 madness. SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes this disease, is a nasty little pathogen, and everyone should take it seriously. But encouraging a moral […]
A wild life
Cancer has claimed Dan Gabryszak, a backwoods Renaissance man who built a life for himself and his family along the Yentna River north of Anchorage when it was still a wilderness a […]
How fears die
With a range from the tropics to the poles both north and south, and an ever-growing population, homo sapiens have demonstrated themselves the most adaptable, four-limbed species on planet Earth, and the […]
Endemic
When, oh, when are political leaders going to accept that the latest pandemic is over, and what we are all dealing with today is a new and sometimes deadly endemic disease different […]
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 […]
Grisly death
Alaska State Troopers say a hiker killed by a bear on the Kenai Peninsula earlier this week was so badly mauled that they are waiting on autopsy results to officially confirm his […]
Fear fear
About 2.8 million people per year die in the United States from heart disease, cancer, injuries and various other illnesses, according to the data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control […]
Good bad-news
Grim but in these times encouraging news is coming out of the University of Washington (UW) where a respected scientist has modeled a national death toll of 81,114 people from the COVID-19 […]
