Before a microscopic coronavirus that has come to be called COVID-19 shifted the entire world order, Alaska’s remote and little peopled Denali Borough had a pretty good thing going. Now it’s […]
Vacant and broke
The cubicle class
Few ideas are more dear to Americans than the belief that they live in a society free of class, and nothing in modern times has done a better job of putting a […]
We were warned
How long have doctors been warning us about the risks of obesity? Long before the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, they were cautioning against a dangerous epidemic tied to our visibly spreading waistlines. “Will All […]
Penning COVID-19
UPDATE: This is an update version of an earlier story. With almost 64,000 Americans now reported dead as a result of the corona-virus COVID-19 and the communities surrounding Alaska’s salmon-rich Bristol Bay […]
NOVID-6/2020?
The Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford University is offering a glimmer of hope that summer could bring a respite from SARS-CoV-2. Alaskans looking at a commercial fishing season disrupted by the […]
Troubled seas-food
A month ago, Blue Harvest Fisheries was touting its state-of-the-art plan to keep the pandemic coronavirus COVID-19 out of its processing plant in Bedford, Mass. Thursday the New Bedford Board of Health […]
Who’s afraid?
The pandemic coronavirus now sweeping the country is revealing some interesting differences in how Americans young and old, rich and poor, liberal and conservative view the realities of life and death – […]
COVID on ice
A two-time Olympian from Anchorage, Alaska has revealed she is battling COVID-19. Thirty-two-year-old Jessica Schultz, the skip on U.S. Olympic women’s curling teams in 2006 and again in 2014, did not respond […]
Halibut hopes
With the Alaska tourism industry – the state’s largest employer – headed for the rocks, charter boat operators hoping to make it through the summer have made a desperate plea to the […]
Forgotten history
Nurse Donna – my late mother – had two favorite home remedies other than chicken soup for almost every disease: fresh air and a saltwater gargle. Until the COVID-19 pandemic erupted, I […]
