Ask people in the Chilkat Valley about Dick Rice and many describe him in terms usually reserved for comic book characters, or for a hero from one of his beloved Louis L’Amour westerns. “His smile would melt glaciers,” said firefighter Al Badgley. “He never got his feathers ruffled. He never got upset. He was always […]
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Rashah McChesney is a multimedia journalist and editor who has reported and edited newsrooms from the Deep South to the Midwest to Alaska. For the past decade, she has worked in collaborative news as the Deputy Editor for the Gulf States Newsroom and a reporter for Alaska’s Energy Desk in Juneau. Currently, she’s editing a project with KYUK and ProPublica and in 2024, she bought the weekly Chilkat Valley News in Southeast Alaska where she is focused on building a sustainable local newsroom.
