Forget the scare about dogs being potential carriers of the pandemic SARS-CoV-2 virus; it’s cats that are the real danger, according to Chinese researchers probing potential non-human carriers. And maybe too […]
Mask the cat
Economic doomsday?
A newly released report on the “Blue Economy” from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development contains nary a mention of Alaska, but it is stuffed full of bad news […]
COVID weirdness
Of all the strange twists and turns that have come out of the research into COVID-19 since the pandemic began to sweep the world six months ago, the strangest comes from Israel […]
Missing fish
Commercial fishermen had their nets in the waters off the mouth of the Copper River on Monday even though the return of sockeye salmon to one of the 49th state’s most fabled […]
COVID gamble
As Alaska salmon processors head into the fishing season hopeful of dodging the perils of the pandemic, a new report on the meat and poultry industries paints a portrait of a problem-filled […]
At last
Finally a hint of good news for the isolated fishing port of Cordova that has been in a tailspin since fall when a cash-strapped state of Alaska cut ferry service. Then came […]
Vacant and broke
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 […]
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 […]
Maybe in May
Coming off the warmest year in Alaska history, the 49th state’s largest city has now racked up four months in a row with average temperatures below normal, according to National Weather […]
