Sign in front of the Poisoned Pen Bookstore a few years back, rediscovered while cleaning out my photo file.
Every fossil fuel company in Alaska, not to mention the current occupant of the Alaska governor’s mansion, clutched their pearls when this story published. (Alaska Beacon)
Dana sez, Terrific story, well deserving of the Pulitzer it won. (Paper Trail, Pro Publica’s podcast)
Quote: “Now that I’m an adult, I’ve grown a bit bored of reassuring others I’m safe to be around. And if I’m honest, there’s something fun about poking a stereotype in the eye. Before, I never thought of myself as someone who could be a gun guy. True, I didn’t really think a gun would make me or my family safer. But as I wrote about gun culture for Slate and thought about my own relationship with guns, I became curious to own one of my own.” (Slate)
Dana sez, Fascinating deep dive, and I loved the part about Valentina Richardson Green.
Quote: “Naknek, South Naknek and King Salmon joined together to become the state’s first borough in 1962 and pooled students from three villages to make a local school. But because of the river, kids in South Naknek have to be flown in. Now, it’s three kids — Tess and her two younger sisters — but King said in the past it’s been as many as 20.” (Rachel Cassandra, Alaska Public Media)
Quote for the day
It’s when he addresses our personal responsibility in challenging such dark forces that [Pope] Leo borrows an insight from Tolkien’s famous wizard, Gandalf: “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. (Pope Leo Schooled the Tech Bros on Tolkien, in Wired)
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