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For The New York Times: In Alaska’s Far-Flung Villages, Happiness is a Cake Mix
No matter where you go in rural Alaska, you will always find a cake mix cake.
For The New York Times: A postcard from Kenai’s dipnet beach, America’s most democratic fishery
And there is most likely no more democratic fishing spot in America than the Kenai — a place where any Alaska resident, from an oil company executive to a carwash attendant, can fill a freezer with premium salmon for only the cost of gas and gear.
For High Country News: A Gambell teenager took a whale, now he’s haunted by death threats from across the world
Before his story made the Anchorage paper, before the first death threat arrived from across the world, before his elders began to worry and his mother cried over the things she read on Facebook, Chris Apassingok, age 16, caught a whale.
For the Washington Post: Alaska pragmatic on N. Korean Missile Threat (Bonus: story mention on Colbert!)
There have been times in Alaska’s history when people have had deep anxiety about foreign threats. Now is not one of those.
For Edible Alaska: Alaska Sprouts keeps growing
Alaska Sprouts just opened a retail location with Wild Scoops and Alaska Pasta Company in Fairview at 15th Avenue and Ingra Street.
For The Guardian: Homeless in America
I’m looking for more story ideas, especially ones that involve innovation and solutions, about homelessness in Alaska to contribute to this Guardian project.