The Mudflats

Tiptoeing Through the Muck of Alaskan Politics

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 [...]