An old northland joke describes an Alaska sourdough as someone who has gone sour on the country but lacks the dough to pay for passage to friendlier environments to the south. And […]
Sour sourdoughs
Endless battle
Update, Aug. 5, 2019: Judge Jason Gist today issued an 11-page decision wherein he point-by-point rejected just about every complaint made by the Cook Inlet Fishermen’s Fund, and then summed the essence […]
Charters lost big
The economic analysis the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said was too complicated to be done before halibut quota was taken away from Alaska charter fishing businesses and given to commercial […]
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 […]
Golden north
FAIRBANKS – A lot has changed in this northern frontier city of nine lives since the black gold started flowing south from Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay more than 40 years ago. As with […]
Bring it on
As the weather warms at last in the north with the snow melting and the now long days growing ever longer, it is time for Alaska residents to take a deep breath […]
Fair-undrum
News analysis The commendable thing about humanity is that humans, at least many of them, believe in the fundamental, philosophical ideals of equality, justice and fairness. But what happens in a complex […]
The target
Yet again Alaska appears to be gearing up for a big fight focused on one of the state’s smallest commercial fisheries. The United Fishermen of Alaska, one of the most politically powerful […]
Parks booming
Alaska’s national parks – once a source of much controversy – continue to power 49th state tourism in a big way, but economic returns remain largely limited to a few areas of […]
Passing era
Another of the authors of the Alaska Constitution, one of a generation of Alaskans who looked always forward and seldom back, former Lt. Gov. Jack Coghill has died at the age […]
