On Friday, October 16, Alaska Native youth and elders held a press conference to shape reflections on this past week’s AFN activities. Three Alaska Native youth and two elders shared about resolutions they created through the annual Elders and Youth Conference. A looming question: as the virtual resolution portion of the annual gathering has […]
This election season, we are strongly urging our fellow Alaskans to VOTE NO ON BALLOT MEASURE 2. This initiative would get rid of our simple one person, one vote system and replace it with a 25-page mess written and funded by billionaires in the Lower-48. Ballot Measure 2 did not come from folks in […]
As an emergency department physician, it saddens me, but I have come to terms with the fact that some people get awful cancers. Or that car accidents can change a person’s life in a split second and trampolines cause the craziest fractures. What I have not been able to come to terms with is […]
When I tell people I’m a forensic scientist they either immediately start probing me for the latest gruesome autopsy story or ask if we found the guilty party. Fortunately for me I do neither of these things. What forensic scientists do is take evidence from a crime scene and use science to answer […]