Alaska’s ‘Wild’ Product of Asia A news analysis With President Donald Trump reguarly ordering or threatening new tariffs to balance the country’s nearly $300 billion trade deficit with China, the Alaska Seafood […]
Cheap labor
Off the cliff
The invisible, pandemic coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has gone after the three-legged stool of Alaska’s private sector economy like a big, angry beaver, according to the Alaska Department of Labor. Jobs in the oil […]
Old media twilight?
The fading significance of Alaska’s legacy media is broken down by the numbers in the September issue of the state Department of Labor’s Alaska Economic Trends, and the picture isn’t pretty. An […]
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 […]
Altered state
News analysis Possibly nothing underlines the troubled state of the Alaska economy more than a new YouTube political advertisement produced for the campaign of incumbent governor Bill Walker. In the ad, a […]
Money flows
The high cost of doing government business in Alaska was outlined Wednesday in a report from the Alaska Policy Forum that showed nearly three-quarters of Anchorage Municipal employees are compensated to the […]
Cold, dark and dying
December in Alaska is always a grim time of year buoyed only temporarily by holiday cheer. The shortening of the days is impossible to avoid. Nine-to-5ers can go from home to […]
The great AK tax fantasy
Joe Panacea lives in Texas, or is it Oklahoma? He flies to Alaska once a month, or is it every two weeks? He (or is it a she) pockets paychecks worth $100,000 […]
