Menopause: What to expect
By Laura Henneker, MSN, FNPWhy am I tired, moody, and gaining weight? Is it my hormones?I am asked by women at all stages of...
Happy New Year Cordova!
It’s Iceworm time! The 2023 Iceworm Festival is coming up Jan. 28 through Feb. 4. Get yourpowers primed, because the theme this year is...
Cordova Electric wants to hear from you!
At least once every five years, Cordova Electric Cooperative (CEC) enlists the assistance of a professional third-party firm to survey customers — cooperative members...
Sharing and Spreading Christmas Cheer
By Rev. Belle Mickelson, for The Cordova TimesHere in the darkness of winter—it’s a wonderful time to fill our hearts with light and love...
These trustees can’t be trusted: Play-acting is an abuse of public trust
For 30 years now, the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council has been making decisions on disbursing funds to support research on and habitat...
What Alaskans need to know about RSV
Many viruses are making Alaskans sick this winter, but the virus primarily responsible for filling up our clinics, emergency departments, and pediatric hospital beds...
Get out and vote to use your voice
As an Alaskan, I’m proud each time I do my civic duty and exercise my right to vote. My power as an American citizen...
Commentary: CRRC expands Alutiiq Pride Marine Institute in Chugach Region
Over the past three years CRRC has been actively expanding our internal capacity by creating new programs and ramping up the ones already in place. CRRC’s Alutiiq Pride Marine Institute (APMI) does most of our monitoring work, conducting ocean acidification research, harmful algal bloom water quality research, and leading mariculture research and development for the State of Alaska and Pacific Northwest.
Commetary: Our ancestors survived against all odds, we owe it to them to vote
Many people don’t know that Native Americans didn’t have the right to vote in federal elections until we were granted U.S. citizenship in 1924 and that it wasn’t until the 1960s that the last state granted us the right to vote in state elections. This is the sad and ironic truth — even though Indigenous communities in North America are some of the oldest democracies in the world.
Alaska can’t afford to tread water on bycatch
Alaska is a fishing state. That includes traditional subsistence harvesters, sport and personal use anglers, and commercial fishing families who drive coastal economies. The ocean and its bounty are woven into the DNA of Alaskans – we rely on it as a foundation of community and culture. Fish runs and resource abundance are a bellwether for our economic, social, and environmental health.
