Killer driver’s short jail sentence Anchorage driver Bessie Binkowski avoided homicide charges for killing 63-year-old Arthur Stepetin, Jr. in August, but she will be spending four months in jail thanks to a […]
Low-value lives
Saving lives
Easy solution for safer streets If the stories told by the many motorists who claim to have been traumatized by near misses with homeless pedestrians on Anchorage streets are true, maybe […]
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 […]
Live longer
Studies offer cheap, easy prescription Want to live better and significantly increase your chances of living longer? No problem. Get up off your ass and move at every opportunity. Researchers from Australia […]
Trafficking
America’s biggest public health problem The U.S. Union of Concerned Scientists is out with a new report highlighting the costs of the country’s addiction to motor vehicles, but it misses one of […]
Better living
If only we could curb the addiction…. Another study is out concluding that more exercise and improved diets could go a long way toward slowing what has become an epidemic of dementia […]
Good roads
What Alaskans really want Of Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator credited with the invention of the philosophy of fascism, it was once said in praise that he “made the trains run on […]
Questionable priorities
The costs of machines dictating policy Alaska State Troopers are yet again trumpeting their desire to make everyone safe by taking extra efforts to enforce the nation’s mandatory seatbelt law. “…Troopers […]
Mind-altering machinery
As residents of Alaska’s largest city struggle and steam their way through roads still clogged by an unusual volume of snow, maybe it is time for some serious contemplation of the country’s […]
Trains of trucks
OGALLALA, Neb. – Rolling west on the interstate highway system through the American Heartland, it’s hard to avoid wondering if Amazon.com-founder Jeff Bezos isn’t responsible for adding more carbon dioxide to […]
