Happiness is just steps away This being the “cabin fever” season in Alaska, those suffering with what were once called the “winter blues” might want to take note of a cheap and […]
Mood booster
National decay
The Make America Fit Again dilemma Lost in the fog of a cultural war that has been raging for years now in these UnUnited States of Amercia are some of the biggest […]
Life in Anchorage
No Safe Space Seventy-nine-year-old Gladys Graf did everything right on her late-morning walk in Anchorage’s Midtown on Monday, and then she died. Anchorage Police say that before crossing busy Benson Boulevard at […]
War on cars
We have met the enemy; he is us Electric-powered cars and trucks are not the clean-world panacea many Americans thought they were, researchers for the National Bureau of Economic Research have […]
Car-diction
Millions dead give new meaning to ‘killer traffic’ Forget for a moment the pandemic – if that is possible – and turn your attention to a very good study out of England […]
Good roads
What Alaskans really want Of Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator credited with the invention of the philosophy of fascism, it was once said in praise that he “made the trains run on […]
The great addiction
More than a century on from when Henry Ford changed America forever with the introduction of the Model T, the time has come to ask whether we still own motor vehicles […]
Everyday danger
Lack of consequences = dangerous roads The question of the moment is simple: “Who killed Carlton Higgins?” The Anchorage Police Department (APD) knows, but it won’t say. Why? Because APD is […]
Talking safety
Anchorage’s phony new bike law On the day a well-meaning Anchorage Assembly approved a new bike ordinance claimed to make the state’s largest city safer for those who pedal, I was […]
Questionable priorities
The costs of machines dictating policy Alaska State Troopers are yet again trumpeting their desire to make everyone safe by taking extra efforts to enforce the nation’s mandatory seatbelt law. “…Troopers […]
