The Honorable Alaska State Senator Donny Olsen, (D) of Golovin is being cruelly criticized by people who, in most cases, have never been to his part of the country, don’t know one single thing about the high cost of any kind of transportation, and talking about a part of life in the North they know absolutely nothing about.

Just jump all over a man who has worked hard all of his life and mastered the focus and dedication to become Alaska’s lone Native medical doctor that I know of. He is a pilot like his father Martin, and is a good family man who remains in a small village to help as many people as he can.

Like I have said over and over, whenever a story appears in the news about Native people, and whether its good or not, most of what we see and read are contentious petty grievances, old stereotypical gossip, and negativity to the max.

This is par for the course. But you can't keep a good man down.