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Seismic Airguns, Environmental Crises, and Organized Labor: Part Two

AK Gov. (r) Mike “Drink-Your-Milkshake” Dunleavy Tanker Teacher Oil Guy My month-long stint on the Last Frontier winds down. Nightfall casts its dim mantle over daylight hours with heightened resolve. It engulfs faraway volcanic silhouettes with relish before gobbling up the chicken coup outside.   Around mid-November, the state’s North Pole will undergo complete darkness for two consecutive months.   But not in Homer. The daylight swings here aren’t as pronounced. So much for romantic geographic extremities. Still, the floodlight outside the guesthouse died and walking to the bathhouse for a midnight piss is a chilling journey even Virgil would…

Seismic Airguns, Environmental Crises, and Organized Labor

Alaska’s “Open for Business” and It Sounds Like a Warzone I’m watching my brother’s place in Homer, Alaska for a month. Just me, a dog, a cat, two chickens, and the occasional moose. The rental property, made up of three separate units, is connected by wooden boardwalks and snugly nested on a bluff overlooking Cook Inlet. I’m staying in the guesthouse, while Nobody the cat and Benny the dog have free rein over the main cabin. I’d enforce my human superiority over the pets, claiming the cabin as my rightful domain, but Nobody’s ubiquitous fur is anathema to my asthma.…