Aware of our fascination with the current wave of Bhutanese refugees alighting in the U.S., our favorite correspondent from the Nushagak Bay area alerted us to this great A/V feature from the Anchorage Daily News. Apparently a small group of the Lhotshampas have landed in the Land of the Midnight Sun, after a gobsmacking 17 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Nebraska'
Renewal to the North
October 6th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Tags:Alaska·Bhutan·Botswana·immigration·Minnesota·Nebraska·Nepal·Soviet Union
An Easy Four Bucks
September 2nd, 2009 · 2 Comments
Legal wolf hunting has finally returned to the Lower 48, ostensibly as a way to control the species’ population while also earning Idaho’s state government a few bucks. The program obviously has some folks in a lather, as history shows that rapacious hunting was responsible for the gray wolf’s longtime residency on the endangered species [...]
Tags:economics·hunting·Idaho·Nebraska·wildlife management·wolves
Too Fat for the Fuzz?
July 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments
We’ve seen our fair share of portly policemen over the years, so were were a bit surprised to learn of Chris Parent’s strange saga. The Nebraskan cop was fired two years ago for being way too fat—so fat, in fact, that he couldn’t kneel down and shoot during the department’s firearms test. A protracted legal [...]
