Why reporting is now so lame The truly sad thing about American journalism these days is the agenda-driven, narrow-mindedness that prevents reporters from seeing and reporting the complexities and the ironies of […]
Big homeless ruling
Is there hope for Anchorage? Having become the Portland of the North, or worse, what will Anchorage do now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled the homeless can be prevented […]
Non-farm problems
AK hatcheries oppose environmental monitoring Alaska’s self-proclaimed salmon “ranchers” are protesting a state decision to treat their salmon-filled net pens the same as the salmon-filled net pens of salmon “farmers” around the […]
Demarketing
Canadians target sales of Alaska salmon Stealing a page from the playbook Alaska commercial salmon fishermen and some environmental groups used in an effort to kill net-pen salmon farming more than a […]
New world order
As commercial fishermen in Alaska’s Cook Inlet continue to beat the dead horse of “maximum sustained yield (MSY),” the world of seafood is evolving at the speed of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. China’s […]
Losing salmon
The North Pacific Ocean is at this time home to more salmon than at any time in recorded history, and the residents of Seattle are worrying that their local sockeye, which once numbered […]
The futurist
If you are an Alaska commercial fisherman or someone who simply cares about the fate of the state’s small, rural communities still dependent on commercial fishing as their economic reason to […]
Safely unknown
Climate change began poisoning the people of the Norwegian Arctic with dangerous chemicals some 3,800 to 6,300 years ago scientists have concluded after digging around in the garbage pits of that country’s […]
Unconsidered costs
Why is it that when Americans face-off in debates about transportation infrastructure they invariably end up arguing about the wrong thing? Motorists rant about holier-than-thou, scofflaw cyclists and inattentive pedestrians that can […]
Gone fish?
Officials with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game say they’re sticking with a forecast for another boom year for pink salmon despite a first-ever, international survey of the Gulf of Alaska […]
