Archive of: Commentary

GUEST COMMENTARY: Eye on Wall Street: Will April flowers bring May showers?

U.S. equities continued on a roll with the S&P 500 gaining almost 2 percent in April. It is up 12.7 percent year to date.

JEFF PANTAGES, ALASKA'S EYE ON WALL STREET/FOR THE JOURNAL

FISH FACTOR: Salmon season ready to open with Copper River celebrations

It might still feel like winter but Alaska’s 2013 salmon season will officially get under way on May 16, when the first runs of reds and kings are scheduled to arrive at Copper River.

LAINE WELCH, FOR THE JOURNAL

GUEST COMMENTARY: PR for SB 21 takes credit for moves made under ACES

Within a week after his $1 billion-plus oil revenue rollback passed, the governor, oil companies and their allies began to crank up their PR machine.

Rep. Les Gara

The Bookworm Sez: How to make business beautiful

Your customers have been good to you.

TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER, FOR THE JOURNAL

FISH FACTOR: Catch shares part of plan to reduce Gulf of Alaska bycatch

Fishing industry stakeholders and federal managers in June will begin crafting a bycatch reduction plan for trawl groundfish fisheries in the Gulf of Alaska.

LAINE WELCH, FOR THE JOURNAL

GUEST COMMENTARY: Reasons still unclear for booting Webster from Board of Fisheries

This is a tough one for me. I’ve wrestled with the following questions for weeks and months now, and I still can’t find an explanation for both sides of the story.

Catie Quinn

GUEST COMMENTARY: Learning the same lessons once again after Boston attacks

The beautiful Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Center for Public Affairs in Simi Valley, Calif., was the last place I expected to be reminded of the violence that paralyzed the city of Boston last week and turned it into a mini-Baghdad.

Michael Reagan

GUEST COMMENTARY: Eye on Wall Street: For now, here’s investment like home

The U.S. economy is slowly improving led by housing and auto sales.

JEFF PANTAGES, ALASKA'S EYE ON WALL STREET/FOR THE JOURNAL

The Bookworm Sez: The Disney model at work

Some of your clients have been acting goofy these days.

TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER, FOR THE JOURNAL

FISH FACTOR: King crab research seeks answers about poor stock status

Laine Welch, For the Journal/Fish Factor