Among the more troubling aspects of President Donald Trump’s justification for shrinking two national monuments in Utah is his suggestion that federally managed public lands… Continue reading
Open a bank account using a stolen identity and you might find yourself behind bars. Open millions of accounts using stolen identities, and you might… Continue reading
My wife spends a lot of time rolling her eyes. She knows, for instance, that when we meet at the end of the day and… Continue reading
A new FBI report on hate crimes tells a sobering story. For the second year in a row, police departments across the country reported a… Continue reading
A new FBI report on hate crimes tells a sobering story. For the second year in a row, police departments across the country reported a… Continue reading
One way to kill a predatory animal is to deny it sustenance. The tax-cut bill passed by the Senate, if it clears a conference with… Continue reading
Alaska now has the necessary alignment for the Alaska gasline LNG project. Mid-June 1970: one of the most important days in my life. It rained,… Continue reading
The president of the United States wakes up some mornings seemingly determined to convince as many people as possible that he’s unsuited to high office.… Continue reading
It’s like your standard con: The flimflammer counts on the flimflammee to be ripe for the swindle, to be a larcenous cheat him- or herself.… Continue reading
Rarely has the idiom “virtue is its own reward” looked better than it does in light of the sex scandals sweeping the nation. The so-called… Continue reading
Between Thanksgiving and the New Year, it is easy to get caught up in the holiday rush, feel the pull of corporate shopping events like… Continue reading
Winter in Fairbanks is deceptively pristine in its winter white blanket of snow. With the hard winter comes increased fuel consumption and occasional inversions that… Continue reading
There are sexual harassers, and then there is John Conyers, the Democrat from Detroit who made his congressional office an adjunct of his libido. The… Continue reading
Alaska’s economy is based on natural resource development, whether it’s oil, natural gas, fishing, mining or timber. Even tourism is largely dependent on wise management… Continue reading
The English poet of the Middle Ages, Geoffrey Chaucer, is generally credited with coining the phrase that has been updated in modern English to read,… Continue reading
Thanks to all for Harvest Auction Kenai Fine Art Center wishes to thank all the artists, vendors and patrons who contributed to our 2017 Harvest… Continue reading
As he raised estate tax rates to fund work programs during the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, “The transmission from generation to generation of… Continue reading
Still another Thanksgiving has passed, and I have done what I always do: nothing. I didn’t overeat, and certainly didn’t travel. Getting together with family… Continue reading
For years, we’ve been hearing public health officials make this argument: If you want to lower health care costs in the long run, you need… Continue reading
Any other Republican president but Donald Trump might expect to get at least some credit for the mostly positive direction in which the country is… Continue reading
