A small update on the Emmonak situation - from The Mudflats

[Blue_In_AK]

The weather has finally allowed investigative journalist Dennis Zaki to make it out to western Alaska to report on the food/fuel shortages out there. Here's the latest.


http://www.themudflats.net/2009/01/18/where-in-the-world-is-dennis-zaki-part-ii/

Just threw out an email to Dennis Zaki of The Alaska Report http://www.alaskareport.com/ , hoping he wasn’t still in Anchorage waiting for the Bethel airport to open. I just got a response back. Dennis is in Bethel, and just getting settled in! He arrived right before they closed the airport again.

He’s got a couple interviews lined up for tomorrow, and reports the following:

Just left the Bethel grocery store.
Milk - $9.89 a gallon.
A gallon of liquid Tide - $29.79.
16oz bottle of Mug rootbeer - $2.65
Subway foot long $10.89
Bland hotel room for one tired traveller - $168.


Heading out to bush Alaska to cover this breaking story and bring it to the national media? Priceless.

I’ll bring you more news as I know it.


Meanwhile, you can leave your messages for Dennis in the comments section.