Slipped in among the Christmas gifts last year was a sneaky nod for Frankenfish by the FDA. The Food and Drug Administration chose the holidays to release its environmental assessment saying that genetically modified salmon made by a company called AquaBounty won’t have any significant impacts on the human environment and is unlikely to harm wild fish.

How do you create jobs in Seattle and Alaska? By building fishing boats here and hiring workers who might otherwise only get jobs in fast-food restaurants.

In the interest of in-flight safety, as well as sparing travelers to details of personal conversations, Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, has come out in opposition to permitting cell phone calls during commercial flights.