For ADN: Anchorage’s bagels are better than ever. You just have to know where to find them.
A half-dozen small bagel operations have sprung up in what was once a “bagel desert.”
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For NYT (A-1!): Starving Orcas and the Fate of Alaska’s Disappearing King Salmon
With the fish numbers at historic lows, scientists, chefs and others are asking whether we should be eating them anymore, and what it means for the future of all wild salmon.
Seven Super-(Sorta)-Secret Sandwiches To Eat This Summer in Anchorage
The “sandwich parliament” has passed a few resolutions.
For Grist: Billions of snow crabs are missing. A remote Alaskan village depends on the harvest to survive.
When climate change upends the relationship between people and animals, making it harder to stay in small rural places, who keeps track of all that happened there?
NEIGHBORS: An Anchorage doctor’s office has become a destination for patients whose lives have been upended by long COVID
Dr. Luke Liu’s clinic will soon begin recruiting patients for a pilot study of a treatment for long COVID symptoms.
NEIGHBORS: A blessing for mothers in pandemic times
Blessed is every coiled soccer sock you unroll before putting it in the wash…
NEIGHBORS: After years of pandemic disruption, Alaskans are setting more places at the Thanksgiving table
Over the last year, life in the city has inched back to normal for many people who had their usual routines hijacked by the pandemic.
NEIGHBORS: The pandemic years changed shopping in Anchorage. Maybe forever.
As the holiday season approaches, the experience of shopping and what’s available to buy has changed in major ways over the pandemic years. Economists project it’s unlikely to recover soon.
For the NYT: What a freezer means in Rural Alaska
For New York Times Food a story about the vital role chest freezers play in the economics and culture of Alaska Native villages, and how they are being threatened as increasingly violent storms take out the electricity.
NEIGHBORS: Where have the workers gone?
I got curious about why there are still long drive-thru lines, long waits at restaurants and so many help-wanted signs in Anchorage.