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 […]
Fear fear
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 […]
An economic plague
As the day’s lengthen in the north and Alaska warms toward another season of salmon bounty, the problems stalking the state’s commercial fishing industry seem to be ever growing. Even before […]
Mountain closed
Two months before the serious start to the mountaineering season in the Alaska Range mountains, the National Park Service has decided Covid-19 is more dangerous than climbing North America’s tallest mountain. The […]
Danger heating up
As the global climate continues to warm, it is likely to lure people to their deaths, according to scientists from Imperial College London and Harvard. After examining injury deaths in the contiguous […]
Unconsidered costs
Why is it that when Americans face-off in debates about transportation infrastructure they invariably end up arguing about the wrong thing? Motorists rant about holier-than-thou, scofflaw cyclists and inattentive pedestrians that can […]
Helmet distractions
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Tuesday issued its analysis of why increasing numbers of bicyclists are dying on U.S. roads even though some – especially women – now don’t ride […]
Olden days
The difference between hunting for your dinner and shopping for it is writ in the reminder of how easy life in the modern Western world. It is so easy most just take […]
Subtle dangers
CHITINA – Along the banks of the Copper River on Tuesday, many of those dipnetting salmon from the muddy waters raging south toward the Gulf of Alaska seemed well aware of the […]
Guns kill
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control have released their annual death report, and with that, firearms are again in the news in Alaska. “Alaska ranks number one in gun death rates,” KTUU.com, […]
