“He’s never seen a war that he didn’t like.” US President Donald Trump on Tuesday recalled Lindsey Graham’s warmongering ways ahead of the late Republican senator’s funeral, while once again threatening to commit more atrocities in Iran if an agreement to stop the war he and Israel started there is not reached soon. Trump phoned in to Fox News’ […]
The steel-hulled square-rigger sailing ship, the Star of Russia, bought by the Alaska Packers Association on November 1st, 1901, would run aground less than four years later. The ship ran aground on Chirikof Island on July 29th, 1905. There were no lives lost and it was soon refloated and repaired at a cost of $56,000 […]
Before being patched with thick black asphalt during recent weeks, the roads across Goldstream Creek’s swampy valley bucked my car like a whitewater raft in the Nenana River canyon. This is not news. I’ve bobbed over these road waves for 60 years. I first felt them as a kid riding the original gravel roads in […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Coast Guard Cutter (CGC) Healy experienced a significant engineering casualty while operating northwest of Port Angeles, Washington. There were no reported injuries. On July 13th, tugs safely towed CGC Healy back to homeport for an investigation into the incident and to undergo major repairs. “The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Healy acted with speed and skill in responding to […]