Anchorage Daily News - Dec. 2021

Alaska, like much of the country, is in the midst of a drastic ammunition shortage. What the shortage means for Alaskans is bare shelves in sporting goods stores, price gouging on secondary markets, hunters going into the field with just a few cartridges, fewer rounds fired at ranges by professionals and hobbyists alike, and uncertainty about when or if the situation will revert to the way things were.

Anchorage Daily News - Nov. 2021

Cannabis businesses across the state are confronting a daunting set of issues that owners and advocates say are making it nearly impossible to survive. Some Alaskans who poured their life savings or retirement accounts into starting companies are scrambling to find someone to buy them out. Operations are failing, others are in the red and behind on taxes owed to the state.

Anchorage Daily News - Nov. 2021

The idea came from Gov. Mike Dunleavy: “Establish a huntable population of Sitka black-tailed deer in the Mat-Su,” according to the first page of an internal state report. But a copy of the report obtained by the Anchorage Daily News described bleak prospects for any deer moved into the area. What’s more, they may ultimately mean more problems than benefits.

Anchorage Daily News with support from the Pulitzer Center - Sept. 2021

This year, the Yukon salmon run collapsed — from the Bering Sea to Interior Alaska to Canada. The reversal is stunning: an industrial food system transposed on what has historically been one of the most abundant and consistent funnels for wild protein in the world. If the salmon disappear, so does one of the few ways for people to earn enough money to live well in an expansive, cash-strapped part of Alaska.

Anchorage Daily News, with support from the Pulitzer Center - Sept. 2021

It’s been a different kind of summer in Emmonak and in communities of the Lower Yukon River region. There have been nowhere near the amounts of salmon needed for a commercial or even subsistence harvest. In a place where culture and commerce both come from fishing nets, something essential is missing.

Rolling Stone - Aug. 2021

Skateboarding’s second Olympic event, the park contest, wrapped up Thursday in Tokyo, with few of the favored competitors making it to the podium. In the women’s contest, two Japanese women and a half-Japanese skater riding for Great Britain took medals — none of them old enough to drink in a U.S. bar. In the men’s event, an Australian 18-year-old got gold, with a Brazlian and an American following behind, respectively.

The Washington Post - Oct 2020

For months, Alaska’s remote, mostly Indigenous rural communities protected themselves from the coronavirus through restrictions on travel and local health measures. Once the virus arrived, though, conditions enabled it to spread like wildfire.

WHYY - July 2020

Mae Krier has helped make a lot of things in her 94 years, beginning when she was a teenager riveting heavy bombers during World War II. Now, in the middle of a global pandemic, she is cutting, creasing, and stitching hundreds of cloth masks.

WHYY - July 2020

With the vigorous national debate over racism, representation and history sparked by George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police, efforts to remove Native American imagery from school icons in Pennsylvania are gaining more traction. So, too, are their defenders’ demands that the mascots remain in place.

WHYY - June 2020

Bob Mills was one of hundreds of people who streamed into Harrah’s Philadelphia in the hour after it reopened its doors Friday morning in Chester. Casinos across Pennsylvania have been reopening this month, and all but one are set to resume operations by next week. But just because the gambling halls are open doesn’t mean they’re operating like they used to.

WHYY - June 2020

A massive peaceful demonstration at the Philadelphia Museum of Art set the tone for Saturday’s eighth day of protests over police brutality against Black Americans in the wake of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. A curfew announced earlier in the day took effect at 8 p.m. and was to stay in place until 6 a.m. Sunday.

WHYY - May 2020

As protests against police violence and the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis continued into Saturday evening in Philadelphia, Mayor Jim Kenney denounced escalating displays of violence and destruction. More than 100 people were arrested, including 52 for violating curfew and 43 for looting and burglary. At least nine fires were set to vehicles and other structures. T

Mother Jones - September 2019

In 1867, after its territorial acquisition by the United States, Alaska began a system of compulsory education for Indigenous children. It endured for more than a century, experimenting with different models of schooling Alaska Native youth.

The Washington Post - July 2019

An attempt by lawmakers to stop deep cuts to public universities in Alaska faltered this week, leaving administrators preparing to slash academic programs and start the unprecedented process of removing tenured faculty.