On September 2, 1945, V-J Day, the funeral-like solemnity of the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri was shattered by the thunder of 400 B-29 bombers flying overhead, accompanied by an additional 1,500 carrier aircraft. In a bay packed with 260 Allied warships, the effect of such an overwhelming demonstration of power could hardly fail […]
Recently Alaskans watched horrific images from a tailings dam failure in British Columbia that released a flood of millions of gallons toxic water and sludge into an important watershed, just in advance of the salmon return. We witnessed the devastated landscape and heartbroken people facing terrible unknowns about the future of their communities, their food, […]
Mead Treadwell is trying to create distance from the nine-figure profits his company Digimarc made by pushing a national ID card scheme to monitor and track Americans saying he “didn’t look into anybody’s window.” Treadwell is going to have a tough time convincing Alaskans he hasn’t spent years developing new way to monitor Americans after […]
Dear Friends and Neighbors: As with all laws, the devil is in the details. Laws that sound good are often loaded with special interest provisions. The publicly discussed sound bites – especially on the August 19 vote on repealing the 2013 oil tax rollback pushed by Governor Parnell – don’t help a lot. I wrote an Op […]