A polar bear and a cub search for scraps in a large pile of bowhead whale bones left from the village’s subsistence hunting at the end of an unused airstrip near the village of Kaktovik, Alaska, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson
AP braves a white-out blizzard to deliver an exclusive on voter disenfranchisement in Alaska
Minor voting issues anywhere in the country can make headlines, but maybe not in Alaska. During the state’s May primary, Juneau statehouse reporter Becky Bohrer learned two polling places in remote Native villages didn’t open, and one opened for just an hour. Bohrer found that Indigenous voters in isolated villages are routinely disenfranchised. And this […]
NOV. 8, 2024
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