Both economically and biologically, the commercial fisheries of Alaska’s Cook Inlet are imprecise and archaic. And now come federal regulators to try to apply Information Age precision to this chaos of […]
The feds arrive
Dangerous waters
This story has been updated As summer turned to fall, the Kenai River finally gave up the body of avid angler Phillip “Kurt” Keltner who disappeared after a boating accident in early […]
Maw re-indicted
The outlaw Roland Maw can’t seem to cut a break. After a Juneau Superior Court judge tossed out Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) fraud charges against him earlier this month, he pleaded that […]
Maw off the hook
Outlaw former fishermen Roland Maw shook free from the state of Alaska this week, or at least partially so. Juneau Superior Court Judge Louis Menendez freed the former Board of Fisheries member […]
Taxing questions
Alaska is the only state in the union that offers a cash reward for being a resident. Some need that money badly. Some need it about as much as the average American […]
Maw fight: Round 2
A Superior Court judge in Juneau will now decide whether the outlaw Roland Maw, a one-time member of the Alaska Board of Fisheries, goes to trial on charges of bilking the Permanent […]
The Gov strikes back
In the always entertaining world of Alaska politics, the Alaska business community has given Gov. Bill Walker a grade of “D” for his past year’s performance in office, and Walker has in […]
The recession arrives
No one has as yet declared the state of Alaska officially on the list of governments fighting recessions, and it is unlikely anyone will. But a top state economist Tuesday admitted the […]
Grow Alaska how?
THIS STORY WAS UPDATED ON SEPT. 28, 2016 While Alaska Gov. Bill Walker was in Asia chasing a natural gas pipeline dream last week, Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott journeyed to the small […]
PFD mad, madder, maddest
Alaskans were Pretty, Friggin’, Darn angry on Friday, my friends. “Like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli,” as George Costanza once observed. It was an emotion that […]
