FEATURES & COLUMNS Bigger Business: Gin Rummy and Business Deals
by Stephen Hannaford The game of giant corporations is like gin rummy, the mergers and acquistions, sales and spin-offs like plays and melds. Or perhaps it's more accurate to describe it as being like rummy's wilder cousin, canasta: players can pick up the whole pile, get an enormous hand, and work on large melds.
Dose of Reality: Doctors on Strike
by Neil Davis Although most doctors in the United States do treat Medicare patients and get paid by Medicare and supplemental insurance companies, more and more of them are striking against their older patients by opting out of Medicare or refusing to take new Medicare patients.
The Ester Thought Posse Report
January 2008 An unanticipated high number of thoughts per capita in the Ester area (dog and human alike) require a funding increase for our proposal. See also note on tinfoil-hat obstructions.
Fairbanks Spring Hysteria: The Great Tanana Raft Classic
by Admiral Merritt Helfferich and Commodore George Cresswell There we were, sitting in the bar in March after the great summer Fairbanks flood of 1967. What were we going to do once this summer finally arrived? And thus, with this quandry posed and subsequent manly name-calling, one of the great sporting events in Interior history was conceived.
A Frenchman Remembers the Yukon
by John D. Lyle On a hot summer day in eastern Montana I boarded an eastbound flight out of Billings. On board the plane, thousands of feet above the earth, I met the Frenchman known worldwide for his work in the oceans of the world: Jacques Yves Cousteau.
Frostbit
by D. Helfferich Walking in the woods late at night can be hazardous to your dexterity--especially at twenty below.
The Long View: Some Old Young History
by Ross Coen The electoral advantage of Don Young's longstanding incumbency is hard to overstate. Prospective challengers might do well to ask themselves how Young unseated the popular incumbent way back when.
The Missionary Position on Allegience
opinion by Neal Matson Last month's Republic touched on several issues that have more than a little importance in my own life: expatriates, mail-order romance, and the flag pledge.
Outpost Agriculture: Handle with Care
by Philip A. Loring Ethanol is not the panacea for our fuel ills that it's cracked up to be.
Ravens Get Tasers
A Conspiracy of Ravens, by Richard Seifert A real product with a fake ad has a strong reaction among the diverse Alaskan enclave with which I correspond.
Red Alert: Change your lightbulb, dude
by Sören Wuerth BP belches 10.7 million tons of gas a year, but hey, he recycles, he's got a guilt-provoking carbon footprint calculator, and shucks, he feels bad that he's putting out all that greenhouse gas.
Self-reliance: What It Is and Why It Matters
part one of three, by Philip A. Loring The recent hubbub at the borough assembly about Dumpster diving has me thinking about the econmics of self-reliance and its relationship to environmental stewardship and sustainability.
Temporal Felicity and Earnest Desires
Live Free or Die, part 11, by Hannah Hill The freedom of speech is one of the most precious rights we can hold, yet, the ability and privilege of speaking freely, without consequence, is easily taken for granted when the right seems unchallenged.
Ticolandia
by Dan Darrow Going to Costa Rica was a dream come true. However, I didn't take those sanguine travel book writers' assurances that I wouldn't need to know Spanish before I went. Good thing!
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