Dan O'Neill

OPINION: I'm the researcher who first uncovered documentation of nuclear waste buried near Point Hope. But claims that nuclear bombs are buried there are contradicted by some of the very evidence people making those claims cite.

"My grandmother was happy with any kind of fish we brought. She made soup with the heads. I am now the age she was then. And I think fish mean to me now more of what they meant to her then, when she took out her knives and, probably, thought of home."

When the Alaska Press Club began to publicize a special award for Anne Kilkenny's honor, Tony Hopfinger rolled a stink bomb into the parade with a critical posting on Alaska Dispatch. Hopfinger and other critics are wrong.

"Sad" seems the key word in quoted reactions to Ted Stevens' predicament. John McCain used it. Stevens used a variant. Two senators, one Congressman, and candidates Mark Begich and Diane Benson invoked "a sad day."