Warning Signs (2017©donnliston.com) September 27, 2017Echo Magazine https://www.echoak.com/2017/09/warning-signs/ It has been said that suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Like a lot of Alaska superlatives, the high rate of Alaska suicides was impressed upon some of us growing up in high-risk social circumstances. We were told by teachers and counselors that many people in […]
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Anchorage Daily News on the Brink Originally posted on September 14, 2017 in Echo Alaska, titled: Extra! Extra! Read All About It: Donn Liston Remembers the ADN Once Anchorage was a two-newspaper town; we had three television stations delivering supplemental news in black and white, with color highlights during the early 1960s. As a kid
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Visible from Anchorage, below the Nike Hercules Missile installation, is a lighted star installed by the military in 1960. Americans during the 1950s-1960s grew up under the imagined imminent mushroom cloud of the Cold War with the United Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR); a standoff that lasted from the end of World War II until Christmas
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REPRINT FROM: http://www.alaskool.org/projects/ancsa/articles/ADN/Gruening_Rights_Fight.htm by Donn Liston, Daily News Staff Writer Anchorage Daily News, June 28, 1974 Long before civil rights confrontations of the last decade, Ernest Gruening fought for equality among people. And with the death of Alaska’s “grandfather figure” Wednesday, Native people are remembering what he did to ensure their human rights at a
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REPRINT FROM: http://www.alaskool.org/projects/ANCSA/ARTICLES/ADN/Coping_Bureaucracy.htm by Donn Liston, Daily News Staff Writer Anchorage Daily News, June 20, 1974 Sometimes you just can’t win when you’re dealing with the bureaucracy, according to Roy Peratrovich. And even when you’re winning, you lose. At least, that’s the way Roy Peratrovich, Anchorage Bureau of Indian Affairs superintendent, must feel. Anyone who
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