Cheating death everyday Gallup Poll, a surveyor of American public opinion since 1935, is now reporting that the greatest fear of more than a third of Americans is that they will be […]
The disconnect
Streets of death
A staggering pedestrian kill rate If you are one of the few who spend much time walking in Anchorage, be afraid; be very afraid. A “Dangerous by Design” study produced by Smart […]
Road kill 3
The enablers Part 3 of a three-part series As if road deaths in U.S. could be made funny, artist Woodrow Phoenix once sketched a comic book titled “Crash Course: If You Want […]
Road kill 1
The human costs Part 1 of a three-part series Every 24 days and 8 hours in these unUnited States as many people die on the roadways as were killed in the 9/11 […]
Faster, faster, faster
Death by design on U.S. roads With a record number of pedestrians dead in Anchorage last year, the state Department of Transportation has proposed a new, high-speed roadway through the heart of […]
The vulnerable (II)
Part II The deaths of the disregarded Below are the strangest phenomena surrounding the steady increase in the unnecessary deaths of vulnerable road users in the United States today: The lack […]
Deadly flights
Retired BIA director victim of risky job Ten days before Gene Peltola’s 2022 retirement from his position as Alaska director for the Bureau of Indian Affairs – where he championed the […]
Deadly playground
Alaska inattentiveness blamed in billionaire’s death The once richest man in the Czech Republic did not die because of a helicopter crash in the Chugach Mountains just north of Alaska’s […]
Not fit to print
Journalists in Alaska’s largest city can now thank Nome’s Nate Perkins for doing their job for them. He was the first to identify 23-year-old Tyler Haroldson as the pilot who crashed his […]
Last run
A preliminary report released by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board today would appear to indicate that a group of skiers and snowboarders who died in a late March helicopter crash in […]
