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Alaska’s ‘Wild’ Product of Asia A news analysis With President Donald Trump reguarly ordering or threatening new tariffs to balance the country’s nearly $300 billion trade ...
But tops for retirees With the winter of 2025-2026 delivering every kind of seasonal bad to Alaska’s urban core, older Alaskans might have trouble accepting this news, but the data-crunching ...
We are our own worst enemy When, oh when, is the American medical community going to accept the reality that this country’s biggest healthcare problem isn’t insurance or medications; ...
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Twenty-five-years ago economist Steve Colt wrote an “economic history” of “Salmon Fish Traps in Alaska” that ended with this line: “It may be time for Alaskans to reconsider the fish trap.” Colt’s ...
A one-time best bud of Alaskan Gabrielle “Ellie” Rubenstein, a member of the Permanent Fund Corporation’s board of directors up until last summer, now has a $145 million problem. The United States ...
Now 82 years old, Virgil Umpenhour has been at war with Alaska’s commercial salmon farmers, or ranchers as they prefer to call themselves, for most of his adult life. For decades, he battled without ...
A Harvard University survey of 150 of the country’s top experts on “misinformation” provides a wonderful illustration of why American journalism should have avoided the quagmire of “fact-checking,” ...
That’s not great, but it could have been worse. The state figures put the dockside value of the average sockeye at about $4.05 this year, an improvement from the $3.50 per fish paid for bigger fish ...
Only in Alaska can reality prove stranger than reality TV, and when the two converge, the outcome is near unbelievable. Consider the case of 78-year-old Duane Ose who off and on for years lived ...