Go to Commentary to see the Alaska Dispatch op-ed on the Parnell administration’s latest move to facilitate more herbicides in our salmon streams and families bodies.

Humans and cats, much like humans and dogs, have evolved together over thousands of years. Each species has gained from this relationship. Today, in our predominately rural/wilderness borough, these companion animals continue to provide many of us companionship and a measurable sense of well being1 as well as more utilitarian services such as rodent…

SEATTLE (AP) — Randy Kinley, a Lummi tribal member, harvests salmon, clams and oysters innorthwest Washington, and eats what he catches about three or four times a week.Washington waters are supposed to be clean enough to protect people who eat fish from rivers,streams and lakes, but the state standard assumes people can safely eat less…

I’m representing the citizen’s group in this litigation that seeks to hold the state agency accountable for failing to abide by Alaska statutes that require compliance with borough land use plans “to the maximum extent consistent with state interests.” BY ANDREW WELLNERFrontiersman – Published on Saturday, October 22, 2011 9:33 PM AKDTMAT-SU — An activist…

A dam poor idea – Anchorage Press: News: Cheap green electricity! For a hundred years! No risk, nohassle. Yes, my friend, you are a winner. Everyone’s awinner, especially Anchorage.

(Talkeetna, AK) — Alaskan residents have been forced to file an appeal in state Superior Court after the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC) reversed long-standing precedent by deciding to allow toxic herbicide spraying along Alaska Railroad rights-of-ways that threatens surface water and salmon-bearing waterbodies.ADEC granted the Alaska Railroad Corporation a two-year permit in April…

Friday’s New York Times online carried Paul Krugman’s analysis of the developing housing mortgage crisis. As the Nobel-prize-winning economist explains, it is becomes clear that no arm of government– not the regulators, the courts, or the White House– are fully ready to confront the fact that many mortgages aren’t worth the paper they are written…