Alaska’s mafia
Has a new don wannabe What a way to end the week. No sooner had I finished a commentary on the Big Lie propaganda suggesting that the 49 sockeye killed as trawl [ ]
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The big lie
Outside help AK Dems don t need What, in God s name, are Democrats thinking in trying to tie Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, to trawler bycatch that has absolutely nothing to do with the [ ]
High crimes
And Permanent Fund misdemeanors Alaska Democrats are upset that Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, followed the lead of the Alaska Permanent Fund and invested in a highly successful salmon farming business. They should [ ]
The disconnect
Cheating death everyday Gallup Poll, a surveyor of American public opinion since 1935, is now reporting that the greatest fear of more than a third of Americans is that they will be [ ]
Nature’s whims
Alaska hatchery salmon gone missing The grand vision of an Alaska commercial salmon fishing industry stabilized by the hand of man producing fish in hatcheries and sending them to graze the sea [ ]
Brewing disaster
Sound salmon fisheries collapsing With the normal peak of Prince William Sound salmon returns now in the rearview mirror, the ocean-farming heartland of the 49th state is marching toward a commercial fishery [ ]
Dementia
Trump, traffic and your brain With an increasing number of medical studies linking cortisol spikes to cognitive decline, one sort of has to wonder if President Donald Trump and American motor vehicles [ ]
Latest bear attack
See no evil, hear no Update: A late-to-the party Alaska Department of Fish and Game has now added some new information to what happened in Bear Valley while managing to ignore the [ ]
It’s no ‘accident’
The real reasons pedestrians die An urban planner turned internet content provider did a deep dive into why pedestrian deaths in the U.S. rose 72 percent faster than both population growth and [ ]
Winners & losers
Yukon king salmon rebound beginning? After a couple of years with cooler waters in the Bering Sea, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game is reporting a Yukon River return of Chinook [ ]