The Mudflats

Tiptoeing Through the Muck of Alaskan Politics

Hope Coming to Emmonak and Beyond?

If you didn’t get the opportunity to hear Nick Tucker talk to CC on KUDO, he had a message for all those who have stepped up to help rural Alaskans who are having to make the choice of whether to keep their children and elders warm, or fed. “It’s a blessed day.  It’s like angels [...]

A Cry for Help from Rural Alaska. Is Anyone Listening?

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 [...]