"alaska Daily" You Can't Put A Price On A Life(... -

"It’s the only swing," she snapped back. "You can’t put a price on a life, Stanley, but this state tries to every single day."

The story they began to write wasn't just about a missing person anymore; it was about the cold, hard math of survival in the North. They tracked the money trail from the underfunded tribal police to the gleaming corporate offices in Anchorage. They interviewed a mother who had sold her only truck just to pay for a private bush pilot to fly over the tundra for three hours. "Alaska Daily" You Can't Put a Price on a Life(...

As the deadline loomed, the editor, Stanley Cornik, hovered over them. "You’re making this an indictment of the whole system, Eileen. That’s a big swing." "It’s the only swing," she snapped back