A year ago in Alaska, the state was averaging two to 15 cases of COVID-19 per week, according to the Worldometer tracker, and many Alaskans were starting to panic over the […]
How fear dies
Masks and guns
If you live in Alaska, there are situations in which a firearm just might save you from being mauled or killed by a grizzly bear. With the SARS-CoV-2 virus on the loose, […]
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 […]
COVID-iness
As fish processing companies working in Alaska try to come up with plans that will allow for summer operations in the new world of the coronavirus COVID-19, food production facilities across the […]
Floundering
News analysis For the Alaska fishing industry, the second largest employer in the 49th state, the coronavirus pandemic shutting down the country brings good news, bad news and hints of an even […]
Humpies gone
Concern is edging toward panic for commercial salmon seiners in Alaska’s Prince William Sound where an expected big return of pink salmon has gone missing. The Alaska Department of Fish and […]
Budget woes
As the Alaska state House and Senate prepare to sit down to reconcile budgets that take a blood-sucking mosquito bite out of state spending but nonetheless continue the dangerous and eventually doomed […]
Preparation
Before time dulls memory, Alaskans who rode out the end of November earthquake that shook the Anchorage metropolitan area to its core might want to take a look back at what got […]
Resilience
The earthquake that rocked Anchorage Friday morning was felt by Mark Reed as it was felt by everyone else in the state’s largest city. A 7.0 centered almost beneath your neighborhood […]
Don’t worry….
At 12:39 a.m. on the night of the great Alaska tsunami that wasn’t, the Anchorage Office of Emergency Management sent out an email of a “tsunami warning until 01:35 a.m.” It was fake […]
