Americans are commemorating Presidents Day Monday, a federal holiday honoring all U.S. presidents. The holiday is observed on the third Monday of February, the birth month of two of the country’s most prominent presidents – George Washington, the nation’s first president, and Abraham Lincoln, who led the country through the Civil War. While some U.S. […]
Dear Friends and Neighbors, The novel coronavirus that first appeared in China in 2019 is now spreading across the United States. I have heard from many people who are worried about the possibility of COVID-19 spreading in Alaska and wanted to provide you with the best information I could on the coronavirus. My […]
Gravity: we barely ever think about it, at least until we slip on ice or stumble on the stairs. To many ancient thinkers, gravity wasn’t even a force–it was just the natural tendency of objects to sink toward the center of Earth, while planets were subject to other, unrelated laws. Of course, we now know […]