Where to begin? Very fitting, considering it’s Muckraker Day, that we should be given what is the equivalent of two enormous entrees of ….. muck from two superior muckrakers.  They’re both so appetizing it’s hard to know which to choose first. (closes eyes, moves index finger in wide circles….and…..squish!)  OK, we’ll start with this one. One [...]

The first time I heard Univeristy of Alaska professor Rick Steiner speak was in 2006.  He gave a brilliant and passionate presentation entitled “War and the Environment,” and was preparing to travel to the Niger Delta to participate in a damage assessment of the world’s most severely petroleum-impacted ecosystem.  Whatever area of the brain houses the little part [...]

Four days ago, a cry for help went out via the Bristol Bay Times.   Many of us have known that residents of Alaska’s rural villages are having a hard winter.  The weather has been unusually cold, and prices of heating oil and gasoline have been astronomical.  Add to that a disastrous collapsing salmon fishery in Bristol Bay [...]