Reposted by Kevin Berry 🇺🇦Jacob Gellman @jacobgellman.com · 19hSalmon exhibit physiological stress starting at 68°F and experience mortality at around 75°F. Warming fall and spring rivers have already had large impacts on migrating and spawning salmon in recent years. 096
Kevin Berry 🇺🇦 @kevinberryecon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I don't care if someone has to feed meatball. 071
Reposted by Kevin Berry 🇺🇦Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this: 260184264872
Reposted by Kevin Berry 🇺🇦Eric Stone @eriwinsto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026South Korea says it hasn't committed to Alaska LNG, and they say Trump's announcement of more than $50 billion in Korean investment in the gas pipeline "went beyond what was agreed." The sticking point is the same as it's always been: Commercial viability. alaskapublic.org/news/politic...alaskapublic.orgTrump claims South Korea will invest $50B in Alaska gas pipeline. Not so fast, Korean officials sayThe South Korean trade minister said Trump's announcement "went beyond what was agreed" and denied that the country had committed to investing in the Alaska LNG project. 1136
Reposted by Kevin Berry 🇺🇦Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2... 62831431118
Reposted by Kevin Berry 🇺🇦Brett Watson @brettjwatson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026New working paper from Jacob, @kevinberryecon.bsky.social, Hannah and me on valuation of hurricane evacuations. Our contribution to the “Mayor of Amity Island” problem 🦈. Mayor knows the value of staying when the coast is dangerous but didn’t property count the value placed on leaving. 153
Kevin Berry 🇺🇦 @kevinberryecon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The Anchorage metro area should be getting more state resources than anywhere else in the state. 010
Reposted by Kevin Berry 🇺🇦The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 29/09/2026"If your prayer life is boring, then you are focusing on yourself, not on Jesus, not on the needy." #PopeFrancis 0951223
Kevin Berry 🇺🇦 @kevinberryecon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026So I'm still fundraising for Covenant House Alaska - a youth homeless shelter that provides shelter, food, & education to homeless & at-risk #alaska kids who are disproportionately lgbtq+ & AK Native, and may be experiencing mental illness or pregnant/parents www.sleepout.org/participants...sleepout.orgI'm giving up my bed in solidarity with youth facing homelessness.I'm giving up my bed for one night in solidarity with youth overcoming homelessness at Covenant House. 110
Kevin Berry 🇺🇦 @kevinberryecon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Housing prices don't seem like they've gone up *that much* in Anchorage over the last decade. 000
Kevin Berry 🇺🇦 @kevinberryecon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It's a good thing poker is on tv, just in case golf got too exciting 031
Kevin Berry 🇺🇦 @kevinberryecon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026matthewekahn.substack.com/p/declining-...matthewekahn.substack.comDeclining Fertility and Delayed GrandparenthoodI am 60 years old. 000
Kevin Berry 🇺🇦 @kevinberryecon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I'm willing to bet any takers $100k that Anchorage will continue to have single family home neighborhoods after this reform www.adn.com/opinions/202...adn.comOpinion: Welcoming the collapse of Anchorage’s single-family neighborhoodsA sweeping housing ordinance would permit denser development across more than 30,000 residential lots while loosening height, setback and lot-coverage rules. 140
Kevin Berry 🇺🇦 @kevinberryecon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I'm avoiding prepping for a panel on AI I'm on this afternoon, so here's an important graph I made. Child care and elder care are related issues #akleg 020
Kevin Berry 🇺🇦 @kevinberryecon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The NYT apparently doesn't have a great grasp on what matters to Alaskans. 160
Kevin Berry 🇺🇦 @kevinberryecon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Tapping the sign for my undergraduate students. 020
Kevin Berry 🇺🇦 @kevinberryecon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"Covenant House Alaska chief executive Alison Kear said in a phone call Thursday that her shelter, which serves homeless or at-risk youths, has long had a residential childcare license." www.adn.com/alaska-news/... When I say they serve kids, I'm being literal. www.sleepout.org/participants...adn.comCity to Anchorage’s homeless shelters: It’s finally time to get licensedMany operators have complied with a license requirement the Assembly approved in 2021. Others call the process burdensome and unnecessary. 011
Reposted by Kevin Berry 🇺🇦Kevin Berry 🇺🇦 @kevinberryecon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026So once again I am raising money to support @covenanthouse.bsky.social Alaska by joining their Sleep Out event Whether you follow me as an economist, fly fisherman or hockey person or whatever, I'd ask you to consider helping out kids in Alaska who deserve a chance www.sleepout.org/participant/...sleepout.orgI'm giving up my bed in solidarity with youth facing homelessness.I'm giving up my bed for one night in solidarity with youth overcoming homelessness at Covenant House. 273
Kevin Berry 🇺🇦 @kevinberryecon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026So once again I am raising money to support @covenanthouse.bsky.social Alaska by joining their Sleep Out event Whether you follow me as an economist, fly fisherman or hockey person or whatever, I'd ask you to consider helping out kids in Alaska who deserve a chance www.sleepout.org/participant/...sleepout.orgI'm giving up my bed in solidarity with youth facing homelessness.I'm giving up my bed for one night in solidarity with youth overcoming homelessness at Covenant House. 273
Reposted by Kevin Berry 🇺🇦Patrick Johnston 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @risingaction.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Imagine doing a political ad for something you claim to be proud of, being surprised by backlash and then having no desire to talk about what you claim to be standing up for. Let’s talk Ovie: theprovince.com/opinion/alex...theprovince.comAlex Ovechkin wants us to think he's just a stoogeOpinion: Ovechkin says he's just a man, with no ability to control what happens around him. Yeah, right. 64511
Reposted by Kevin Berry 🇺🇦Jake Dye @jakecdye.bsky.social · 19/09/2026In addition to usual demands of winter, the Kenai Peninsula Food Bank says changes to SNAP benefits mean more people may be struggling with groceries this year. The Freedom From Hunger drive runs through September in an effort to replenish food stores before it gets cold. #aknewskdll.orgFreedom from Hunger drive seeks to bolster food bank ahead of winterDonation bins are out near the entrances of grocery stores in Kenai, Soldotna and Nikiski, including Walmart, Fred Meyer, Save-U-More, Three Bears, Safeway, IGA and M&M Market. 03620
Reposted by Kevin Berry 🇺🇦USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It’s probably not good for your mental health to invent people in your head to be mad at. 232209667
Reposted by Kevin Berry 🇺🇦Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 18/09/2026To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. 03114
Kevin Berry 🇺🇦 @kevinberryecon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Ground beef isn't that expensive if you don't care whether it is ground beef 010
Reposted by Kevin Berry 🇺🇦Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Good article, but there’s one understated piece: higher land use of organic ag means that if we shift toward organic at current consumption patterns, more natural ecosystems need to be cleared for farming, causing carbon losses, making total GHG emissions of organic usually higher vs. conventional. 99134
Kevin Berry 🇺🇦 @kevinberryecon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026A lot of problems today could have been avoided if more people played hockey as kids. 020
Kevin Berry 🇺🇦 @kevinberryecon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Feels like on the median day I hear like 3-4 different languages 140
Reposted by Kevin Berry 🇺🇦Anchorage Daily News @adn.com · 16/09/2026The campaign supporting Ballot Measure 2 is running ads telling Alaskans the measure would “bring back the days of open primaries,” even though it would repeal Alaska’s current open primary system.adn.comPro-repeal campaign runs ads that claim passing Ballot Measure 2 would ‘bring back’ open primariesBallot Measure 2 would repeal Alaska’s nonpartisan open primary and ranked-choice general election system, meaning that primary elections would return to being partisan. 1103
Kevin Berry 🇺🇦 @kevinberryecon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026That $200 energy relief rebate is going to cover a tank of gas at this rate. 181
Kevin Berry 🇺🇦 @kevinberryecon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Young people keep making cultural references I don't understand 030
Reposted by Kevin Berry 🇺🇦Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Things happen in college in addition to "learning content" and that's why AP or "college in the high school" will never be the same as college classes 516324
Reposted by Kevin Berry 🇺🇦Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I really hate the way that every incentive lines up against allowing students to explore and be curious and take their time - the things that are most important to their intellectual development 313323
Reposted by Kevin Berry 🇺🇦Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Cool, you graduated at 21, you know nothing about the world or who you are, now what? Go sit in a cubicle for the rest of your life? God we are sentencing these kids to the worst future 4788
Kevin Berry 🇺🇦 @kevinberryecon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026"I was out picking mushrooms and didn't see the president talking about me" is the most SE AK response. If I didn't live here, AK would be unbelievable. 0114
Kevin Berry 🇺🇦 @kevinberryecon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Alaska is a small enough town you can find yourself yelling at a candidate for Governor across a parking lot 0161
Reposted by Kevin Berry 🇺🇦Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 01/09/2026This summer marks 90 years of the Alaska State Fair in Palmer. But Alaska is so big, it actually has four different state fairs every summer. We took a look at the big events--and food--offered at each. 🎤Wesley Early, Avery Ellfeldt, Shelby Herbert, Jake Dye 📹 Matt Faubion 0144
Kevin Berry 🇺🇦 @kevinberryecon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Hell yeah. Snow on the mountains means almost time for the ODR 010
Kevin Berry 🇺🇦 @kevinberryecon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Alaska should limit the campaign season to about 3 weeks long, only allow candidates to participate in debates where any reference to an opponent is required to be a compliment, and require that campaign mailers include either a box of cookies or a Hacienda 2-for-1 coupon. 350
Kevin Berry 🇺🇦 @kevinberryecon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026People are not going to move to Alaska in large numbers because of climate change. 430
Kevin Berry 🇺🇦 @kevinberryecon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026WSJ editorial board: "taxes too high" WSJ news alert: "Great new way to pay 0 taxes!!" 000
Kevin Berry 🇺🇦 @kevinberryecon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026It's very classist to assume people should only learn things with clear applicability to their future job. 030
Kevin Berry 🇺🇦 @kevinberryecon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026One perk of an income tax would be people updating their residencies and admitting they don't live here 050
Kevin Berry 🇺🇦 @kevinberryecon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Seeing an increase in the number of takes from Outside that people are too dumb to figure out ranking four things. 170