Never bet against tech Part 3 of a 4-part series Now semi-retired Alaska economist Gunnar Knapp, the nation’s foremost authority on the economics of the Alaska fishing business, offered a ...

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alaska bet on hopes wild fish would sell better and the farmers would falter. Consumers today are looking for a 3/4 to 1 1/2-inch thick filet, or thicker, to throw on the barbeque, slide into the oven ...

For hundreds of thousands of years, change has been an undeniable and unavoidable constant for the human species. Sometimes it has crept into our lives as easily as the wheel of ancient times or the ...

Many in these unUnited States today believe the big problem with American journalism is political bias, and that is a problem. But the even bigger problem is laziness, ignorance and sometimes the ...

Can an ever smaller Iditarod survive? Fifteen years ago, I wrote a book titled “Graveyard of Dreams: Dashed Hopes and Shattered Aspirations Along Alaska’s Iditarod Trail” that the Iditarod refused to ...

As the commercial salmon fishing in Alaska heads into the heart of its summer season, the 49th state would appear to be reliving the end of the 20th century, which came to a finish with pretty much ...

With the unUnited States of America having become, collectively, the fattest, unfittest, unhealthiest and, in some ways, unfriendliest nations in the Western world thanks to the road-rage stresses of ...

As diehard fans of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race celebrate the victory of an out-of-work reality TV star with a documented history of disrespect for Alaska wildlife and the last mushers on the ...

The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, an event that claims to be “all about the dogs,” this week disqualified a musher who was all about the dogs, lied about disqualifying her, and tried to cover up the ...

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 ...