If you’ve ever been trapped at a summer barbeque in some big…
Have you noticed who’s boarding in Zone 1 for the Whitehorse flight…
With no cell service and the marketing kept to a minimum, this little festival is actually fun
Wonderful for tourists and homeowners at least. Renters? Not so much
Tariffs won’t hurt us in the short run, but the storm clouds are gathering
Alaska is ahead of the curve
You often hear that the Gold Rush was a free-for-all in Alaska,…
Other countries are getting busy in the Arctic
The economy is probably going to heat up. Apartments are probably going to stay scarce
Or you can keep chipping away at War and Peace on the ferry
Economic forecasts are often unreliable, but you can probably bet the housing shortage will continue
Get ready for a big wave of debt
Not everyone will be taken into the future, as Ilya Kabakov once said
It’s an idea that comes up every few years and has never (so far) made it off the drawing board.
Also, ‘keynote listener’ is the dumbest new piece of government jargon
Food trucks are a “thing” in trendy West Coast cities like Portland, Seattle and San Francisco. And Whitehorse is joining the craze.
In a reversal of the Klondike stampede, people from the Yukon are now rushing southwards to Skagway over the Trail of ‘98 in search for a rare and valuable commodity.
One of the good things about democracy is that it surfaces ideas the political elite may not be worried about.
You may not be interested in the commodity markets but, to paraphrase Leon Trotsky, the commodity markets are interested in you.
After a series of columns on fiscal policy, I thought readers this week might enjoy a new topic: cancer.
